Second home owners who speak Welsh should be given preferable treatment when it comes to taxing those with two homes, a Welsh-speaking second home owner has said.
Ifan Lewis, who lives and works in Cardiff but has a second home in Newport, Pembrokeshire inherited from his grandmother, believes the current approach of treating all second home owners the same threatens the future of the Welsh language. He wants to see second home owners assessed according to how "close and deep" their ties are to the area, whether they have relatives in the area, whether they have caring responsibilities and whether they speak Welsh.
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