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

milliemonster

It seems employers are being charged if they have over 10 car parking spaces for staff (or thereabouts), needless to say they will pass this on to their employees, but surely if their employees did all start to use public transport instead, they would still have to pay as their employer is charged by the council for providing the spaces, not for using them?

grizzly1911

Why are trams cheaper/more efficient than buses on bus lanes?

I accept they have dedicated "lanes" but the cost of installing the infrastructure and inflexibility of the system/trams must offset that.

I have experienced them on the continent where they seem to "shuttle" at high frequency aound largely traffic free centres. Those in the UK don't seem particularly frequent. Could also see the merit of driver less trams but this needs closed loops for safety no doubt.

We had this muted at a site on worked on based in a semi rural location. 2500 staff traveled in from all over within a 60 mile radius. The best the local council could do was provide sporadic services that didn't link to other wider infrastructure.

In the end it never got imposed in something like 15 years.

This is simply another tax from a numpty council desperate for revenue, much like town centre parking tax (charges), which will no doubt serve to kill off the city in due course.

vax2002

Just inform your employer of your things you regard as disabilities, blue badges are not valid on private land and the employer must allow you to use disabled parking free under the disability act.
So that stiff back, that dodgy knee, get it down in writing asking the employer to provide reasonable adjustments .
It is like a game of cards and you have to learn what the cards in your hand can do.

lisyloo

they would still have to pay as their employer is charged by the council for providing the spaces

They might be able to turn it into a bin storage area or put a table and chairs out there so that it's no longer "car parking".

lisyloo

Why are trams cheaper/more efficient than buses on bus lanes?

Trams do often have 2 or 3 carriages (well certainly abroad).
We have a few bendy buses but usually buses are single carriage.
This would make trams more efficient.

lostinrates

vax2002 wrote: »

Just inform your employer of your things you regard as disabilities, blue badges are not valid on private land and the employer must allow you to use disabled parking free under the disability act.
So that stiff back, that dodgy knee, get it down in writing asking the employer to provide reasonable adjustments .
It is like a game of cards and you have to learn what the cards in your hand can do.

Actually, i had just popped back in to the thread to sugest that providing free or onsite parking only for disabled drivers might be an option.

Tough on non town centre small businesses still though, who cannot avoid having employees arrive by car.

PasturesNew

One of the issues here isn't whether some people already pay to park their cars, that is something they took into account when they took the job. This is an additional and unexpected cost on workers, especially those too poor to live close to jobs. I usually job hunt ONLY firms that have on-site parking. If I do that now and there's a charge, fine as I know about it before I apply/take the job, but when additional costs are added to the cost of getting to work it's something many will find they can't pay.

I know somebody whose firm have already:
1] Changed the way expenses are calculated, so they now have a £500 fuel bill instead of being able to get most of that covered through expenses. As a field worker they used to be able to claim "from home" when going to other offices, now they can only claim AFTER their travel to work distance has been covered - and as they are a field worker they actually chose to live in a different part of their patch that's 75 miles from the office.
2] Frozen all pay/increases.

To now ask this person to pay to park when they are at work will be the straw that breaks the camel's back. They're already not fixing their car as well as they should and in a complete panic mode the minute any journey is mentioned that they might make more than 1 mile from home.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Actually, i had just popped back in to the thread to sugest that providing free or onsite parking only for disabled drivers might be an option.

Tough on non town centre small businesses still though, who cannot avoid having employees arrive by car.

We'll all have to find local jobs.... I can see myself working in a pasty shop ... and getting VERY large, VERY quickly.

PasturesNew

lippy1923 wrote: »

I dont understand how its going to work. How is anyone going to know who drives in and parks in the staff car park from those who choose to cycle/walk? CCTV? Is it going to be a set fee each year no matter how many times one person drives in? Not really fair on part timers otherwise, who work 3 days a week, when full timers work 5 or more. Or will it be pay as you go? What about people parking their bikes? Its still using company space.
What happens when people start clogging up more side roads, instead of actaully parking in the staff car park?
I personally could park on the street about 2 minutes away- does this mean I avoid the tax?

Stupid!

The Govt tax the firm for owning the spaces. How the employer implements this is their problem (and cost). It'd probably work out as a "one annual permit fits all" - and you either buy it or you don't, whether you work one morning per week or six days.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

We'll all have to find local jobs.... I can see myself working in a pasty shop ... and getting VERY large, VERY quickly.

Less quickly if you eat them hot not cold.:D