Motorists to pay £250 tax for parking at work

........yet they blabber on about people needing to use public transport instead. A system which we fund, then pay ever-increasing fare amounts to use; with absolutely NO protection (drivers will look the other way while you're beaten to a pulp by a chav on the route), and is pretty much always guaranteed to be either 5-10 minutes early or late.

Good stuff.
 
When will they relise there is no ******* viable alternative??????

I work nights = no trains.

The alternative needs to be better, public transport is a massvie step down, subsidise electric cars or something but unless we all start living near to work and in built up areas, public transport is never going to be viable for most people.

So we just get the lining of councils pockets so they can spend it on something totally unrelated and never have to explain to anyone where the money went.

On the + side atleast only 10% of money made is expected to go into running costs.

Apparently 40% of Londons congestion charge goes into running the bleeding thing. Nice.
 
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Pestilence said:
........yet they blabber on about people needing to use public transport instead. A system which we fund, then pay ever-increasing fare amounts to use; with absolutely NO protection (drivers will look the other way while you're beaten to a pulp by a chav on the route), and is pretty much always guaranteed to be either 5-10 minutes early or late.

Good stuff.
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Exactly, I would take public transport for more of my journeys if it was actually viable, but it isn't.

Why would I want to give up my own comfort and solitude to ride a bus that's 10-15 minutes late, stinks of wee, has litter all over it, is loud and uncomfortable.

Here in Sheffield we have trams which cover a large majority of the city and I don't mind using those, they offer almost none of the draw-backs I just listed, and they are fine. But our buses are disgusting, when I used them at college, they were NEVER on time, and sometimes didn't even show up at all.

The strange thing is, buses I've used in most other towns have been quite pleasent, it's just Sheffield that seems to be absolutely dreadful :(
 
Morba said:
will be all hours, screwing shift workers who generally have less available public transport. nice

stupid government
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Agreed. On some shifts I have to be in work for 0545. There is no public transport at this time. Even on normal shifts with a start time of 0700 or 1400, the public transport is so dire and expensive that it would cost me approximately £15 a day to get to work and I'd have to leave the house about 3 hours before I start my shift.

I can leave the house half an hour before in my car or on my motorbike and spend a couple of quid on petrol. Why should I be penalised when there is no suitable alternative? I cannot be expected to begin my commute to work many hours before I'm due to start given the nature of my job. I need to go in refreshed and on the ball. Sitting on a bus or a train for hours is going to frustrate me.

Sickening.
 
Skyfall said:
Not exactly, you can't just do whatever you want on a plot of land there are still rules, regulations and taxes on just about anything you want to have on that land.
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"What they please" was obviously a bad choice of words, but I really feel it should be the same principle in tax cases such as these.

Strife212 said:
It's an outrageous law. The actual concept is absurd. Surely it won't pass?
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Going from the article, it already has in Nottingham.
 
Put everyone on flexi time.

I get up, Work from home for an hour, then drive in after 9AM. Similar thing on the return journey.

I save about 150 to 300 minutes a week which would otherwise be spent in traffic.
 
shauncr91 said:
If you park on private property (owned by your employers), how can they legally tax it? :/
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Probably because it's a taxable benefit in kind. i.e. if you had to pay for it then you would have to pay £xxx, therefore you receive a benefit from your employer by them offering it to you for free. Little different to offering you a company car in their eyes.

Still VERY wrong though.
 
So basically every employer gets rid of all but executive parking spaces and everyone else get to park on the roads, etc. nearby... and all the chaos that will result in...

Time this gov. was long gone :(
 
Rroff said:
So basically every employer gets rid of all but executive parking spaces and everyone else get to park on the roads, etc. nearby... and all the chaos that will result in...

Time this gov. was long gone :(
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To be fair, the inevitable Conservative Government will still back it full force in their new "Thrifty" movement. They have no choice.
 
I wonder how that works for places like where I work - where theres a bunch of companies and a public carpark on the same lot - so the companies don't actually have designated parking places.
 
Rroff said:
I wonder how that works for places like where I work - where theres a bunch of companies and a public carpark on the same lot - so the companies don't actually have designated parking places.
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Here's a better question, how can the council make a company pay if they own the land where the building and the car park is?
 
rypt said:
Here's a better question, how can the council make a company pay if they own the land where the building and the car park is?
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Not sure if a council can. But the government can by treating it as a benefit in kind.
 
rypt said:
How is a parking space a benefit?

You own the land ... you do whatever you want on it (within reason)
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Well, assuming you are the employee rather than the employer, then the parking space they offer is a benefit because you would normally have to pay for it. The government then reason that by your employer offering the service you would 'normally' have to buy that service and therefore pay tax on it.. so they want that tax off you regardless of you being offered it 'free' by your employer.

Labour sux. Fact :(
 
Skyfall said:
Haha, I've just envisaged the next steps in the program... Taxing your car if it's parked at home too. Just wait till you hear about the car passenger tax and the tax on looking at a car...

NB: I do not drive.
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Every time you look at the car in my sig I will have to charge you tax, man.

Pony up!

My workplace has private parking and a site on private land so does this mean this levy does not apply to them?
 
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