ABERYSTWYTH Town Council has written to the Welsh Government to back a move to bring tax-collecting jobs to the town after arguing that “everything is being moved away from mid Wales”.

The council is supporting plans to establish the Welsh Revenue Authority headquarters in the Aberystwyth Welsh Government building on Boulevard St Brieuc in a bid to provide more “quality jobs” in the town.

The town council’s intervention follows the launch of a petition in a bid to persuade the Welsh Government to bring the jobs to Aberystwyth.

In a letter to the minister for finance and local government, Mark Drakeford, clerk Gweneira Raw-Rees, on behalf of Aberystwyth Town Council, wrote: “Aberystwyth Town Council would like to invite the Welsh Revenue Authority to establish their headquarters in Aberystwyth.

“As a town, Aberystwyth has lost a lot of public investment; the closure of the local Tax Office; the reduction in funding for the National Library and the Royal Commission; significant cuts to the county council and Dyfed-Powys Police budgets; the loss of Communities First status and centralisation of probation services and benefit administration."

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