Drivers may need to pay £288pa tax to park car at work

lcharm

david39 wrote: »

Lots of people have to pay to park their cars when they go to work - anyone whose employer does not have a car parking area and who works in an area where there is no long-stay street-parking.

£288 p.a. would seem cheap to most of them.

Yes but isn't that on top of what you pay to park as well?

There's already a growing work at home culture for jobs which don't actually require you to be in the office daily. This will just reinforce it.

It makes me sick that they think this is okay! We'll be taxed on being able to breathe Oxygen in no time.

System

You can not claim travelling to work and the ancillary costs that accompany it as tax relief if you are a normal employee (as a contractor it may be possible).

each_uisge

Jennifer_Jane wrote: »

guess the poorer people will be getting public transport to work

Have you seen the price of public transport these days?

mildred1978

There were rumblings about this in Government offices in South Wales about 6 years ago!

wotsthat

In Nottingham they are trying to link it to the extension of the tram. Once the tram's built who thinks the tax will be dropped?

This is just revenue raising. They want the money and the last thing they need is a tax that can be avoided by changes in behaviour. Parking tax - coming soon to a council near you.

System

chewmylegoff wrote: »

It's not clear from the article whether this is just a local scheme which migh be adopted by other councils or a national initiative being piloted in Nottingham. Given that the govt doesn't appear to have said anything about this, looks like the former, and probably therefore won't affect most people.

It appears to be a local scheme that other councils are free to take up.

Bristol is also planning it http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/news/9101441/More-motorists-face-workplace-parking-charges.html

From HMRC http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/manuals/eimanual/eim21685.htm

The Transport Act 2000 allows local authorities to levy a charge on employers for workplace parking provided to employees. Where local authorities do so the employee will not be chargeable to tax on the cost of the car parking because of the exemption in Section 237(1) ITEPA 2003.

Jennifer_Jane

each_uisge wrote: »

Have you seen the price of public transport these days?

Going off thread, only that my OH lives in London, earns about £24000 a year, of which £1000 goes on his Oyster card, and he was pleased to receive an interest-free loan from his Company to get the reduced figure.

Yes, public transport costs are awful and were when I was working, which is the main reason I drove to work (and it was subsidised by the Company I worked for!).

Truly appalling state of affairs.

SecondLegDownIsTheBigOne

david39 wrote: »

Lots of people have to pay to park their cars when they go to work - anyone whose employer does not have a car parking area and who works in an area where there is no long-stay street-parking.

£288 p.a. would seem cheap to most of them.

... and misery does love company.

bugslet

Well until they integrate the public transport system in a better way, increase the hours that it runs, it's not going to go down well here.

It's not unusual for our drivers to start between 2 and four in the morning or 11 at night. Public transport is a bit limited at those times. I remember when the congestion charge was brought in, workers who started early pointed out that public transport didn't exist at the hours they started.

Mrs_Arcanum

Will be stuffed in David Cameron's constituency where free parking is the sacred cow of the local council.