Car parking at work - new local tax

[Luckypants]

Originally Posted by The Daily Telegraph

Experts on local government believe that authorities may have little alternative but to turn to drivers as a source of income. “Councils are going to look at that kind of a thing as an option,” said Caroline Green, a policy consultant with the Local Government Association. “Traditional forms of money raising will not be sufficient.”

They could try spending less of our bloody money! Instead of looking for ways to bleed more from the hard pressed worker.

Denbighshire CC revamped their offices about 2 years ago and built a massive new car park for staff, they are going to look very silly if they try charging businesses for parking spaces with that behind their plush new offices...

The fact that York City Council are looking at this proposal does not surprise me, in my dealings with them in the past they are vehemently anti-car.

[maviczap]

Don't forget Vat will be going up in December, so all your consumables will be going up as well.

Originally Posted by maviczap

Don't forget Vat will be going up in December, so all your consumables will be going up as well.

You are a little ray of sunshine this morning

Don't blame the LAs entirely. They are acting on a missive from Central Government on this one. This is why all English and Welsh LAs will be implementing it in one form or another.

And yes, LAs will be paying too. Costs will be passed onto the staff rather than onto Council Tax (certainly the case in Cardiff where I work).

[maviczap]

Originally Posted by Jabba

You are a little ray of sunshine this morning

Don't blame the LAs entirely. They are acting on a missive from Central Government on this one. This is why all English and Welsh LAs will be implementing it in one form or another.

And yes, LAs will be paying too. Costs will be passed onto the staff rather than onto Council Tax (certainly the case in Cardiff where I work).

Yes I am aren't I

Don't forget if you don't want to incurr this charge, then you can always travel by train.

Oh, wait a minute, season ticket rail fares are also due to go up by more than the inflation rate, plus they'll also cop for the higher rate of Vat as well, once its introduced.

Get a horse or work from home

Originally Posted by maviczap

Get a horse or work from home

The poo will mean a fine show of roses next year, though

Go by bike.

[timwilky]

The daft thing about this, is my picture above of the work Preston carpark is 200 yards from one of the Preston park and ride car parks. So I would decline parking, park 200 yards up the road and walk into work. For me simples and cheap. but wait am I going to get hit for use of the Knutsford car park and the Rugby one and the Ashby one etc.

Each site would have to charge me for the days I was on their site. They will have to pay someone to patrol the car parks, link registrations to people and issue daily bills.

[embee]

This has been rumbling on for several years now. I'd love to know what the small print says, how are parking spaces defined etc. I bet it'll be a lawyers dream to take on a council over what the definition of a parking space is. If all the businesses contest it the Councils will have to back down because they certainly don't have spare cash to undertake expensive legal test cases. The businesses need to get together and stand up to them, power in numbers.

Yet *another* bill to pay before getting out of bed. Rather than Labour introducing millions of stealth taxes, we're just being shafted 'for the greater good'.

The one that really ****s me off is the graduate tax they've proposed. No way would I sign up to life-tax like that. I've paid a fortune for my degree, and I'll be paying more income tax back as a result of that. Why work if you'll only be penalised?

[Bibio]

they have to get the revenue that they are loosing from the scameras somewhere.

[maviczap]

Originally Posted by gettin2dizzy

Yet *another* bill to pay before getting out of bed. Rather than Labour introducing millions of stealth taxes, we're just being shafted 'for the greater good'.

The one that really ****s me off is the graduate tax they've proposed. No way would I sign up to life-tax like that. I've paid a fortune for my degree, and I'll be paying more income tax back as a result of that. Why work if you'll only be penalised?

Might be better off staying at home and claiming benefits soon