Work parking tax

I don't think bikes are mentioned in the article. Anybody here drive to work in Nottingham? Time to find a job within cycling distance I think. Discuss...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/...g-at-work.html

[timwilky]

This has been around for quite a while and is a tax on jobs. end of.

Public transport does not exist in a usable form for those who work shifts, do not live in city centres etc.

that is a horrendous plan! I mean my company has moved to the outskirts of the city because they removed all free parking close to our head office in the city. so now we would have to pay to park at our offices anyway?! I think we should adopt the French attitude when the government propose these things, just start a riot until they change there mind!

what's next, will our council tax go up because we have a driveway? or do we get a discount because we can park off the main road?

Originally Posted by timwilky

Public transport does not exist in a usable form for those who work shifts, do not live in city centres etc.

+ 1, i can't do my job if i had to rely on public transport to get me in and out of my base location.

Same I'm on call and have often had to come 38 miles or more into the office in Central London at 1am on a Saturday morning or not leave until after transport shuts down at, for a capital city! the disgustingly early time of 11pm!

The tax man can regard free workplace parking as a "benefit in kind" i.e. having value on top of your salary and can tax it, especially if you can use your parking place for private use, e.g at the weekend.

Same with other "benefits in kind", e.g. mobile phones that you can use for personal calls even if you pay for the calls.

Slowly but surely these things will be caught in the net.

[Luckypants]

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

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!

[keith_d]

I particularly like the bit about the revenue from the scheme being "spent on local transport".

What that really means it that government will claw back the expected revenue from central grant-in-aid for road maintenance. Effectively forcing councils to implement this idiotic scheme.

Well, I know who I won't be voting for at the next election.

Keith.

bloody joke! if the company/business owns or leases the land including the parking spaces how on earth can they get away with adding a tax to it?

[Bri w]

Originally Posted by malks

that is a horrendous plan! I mean my company has moved to the outskirts of the city because they removed all free parking close to our head office in the city. so now we would have to pay to park at our offices anyway?! I think we should adopt the French attitude when the government propose these things, just start a riot until they change there mind!

what's next, will our council tax go up because we have a driveway? or do we get a discount because we can park off the main road?

The Greeks just ignore the law en-masse.

As for council tax; a lot of houses have been revalued by the local councils in the last year, inc mine, and guess what - it's been re-banded up. "ooohh, a conservatory, and you've changed the garage into an office." OUCH!