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Originally Posted by Jabba
Same with other "benefits in kind", e.g. mobile phones that you can use for personal calls even if you pay for the calls
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BIK taxation for mobile phones was removed years ago.
This is indeed a tax on jobs, or more correctly commuters. Take the example of my village, not a lot of work around here and 90% of the folk who work have to drive to work. Many of these have parking at work and will end up paying extra tax just to work. That is placing an unfair burden on those who have no choice but to drive to work.
And don't think this will be just affect office workers. Anyone who works in Tesco or similar and can park in the store's car park will be caught, the self employed person with parking at their workshop, perhaps even farmers being taxed to park in their own yard? Everyone will be hit by this. They might even argue that as I work from home I should be taxed for parking on my own drive!
This is a very ill thought out tax, but I would not expect anything else from this lot!