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

wotsthat

PasturesNew wrote: »

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.

That would be a simple way of implementing it.

What Nottingham Council have decided to do for their own employees to introduce a calculation based on employee earnings. i.e. the more you earn the more you pay for parking.

PasturesNew

wotsthat wrote: »

That would be a simple way of implementing it.

What Nottingham Council have decided to do for their own employees to introduce a calculation based on employee earnings. i.e. the more you earn the more you pay for parking.

On the surface that seems fair, but in practice it's not as it looks at the individuals income and not their household income. People working part-time just to work the WTC scam will pay less for their parking than the poor bugg4hs that work full-time to end up with the same in their pocket as they don't have kids.

And then there's the person who is married to a high earner and they only work for shoe money - it doesn't matter to them... yet the person sitting next to them who is single/lives alone and only has this income into their household it could be the straw.

pinkteapot

This is going to hurt medium sized companies unless they pass the cost on to their employees. If a company has 50 parking spaces on its grounds that's a £14,400 tax bill for them, unless they pass the cost on to their employees (the sort of thing that generally causes a significant drop in employee morale).

My husband works at a company on a business park that has a car park. The spaces aren't marked out though. How would they determine how many parking spaces they have?

It will also cause more problems in communities near offices, business parks etc. If employees have to start paying to park, some will park on residential roads which causes other problems.

System

It sounds like a good scheme to me. My company only allows permies to use the carpark. If they start parking elsewhere then, as a contractor, I am quite happy to take one of the spaces for £6 per week instead of the current £6 per day that I have to pay in a normal car park.

Just to ensure that the company doesn't lose too much money of course.

pinkteapot

I do agree - I said last night that a lot of people have to use pay and display or other paid-for parking and £288+VAT per year wasn't that much per day. Still, if people are used to free parking it's another dent in their monthly budget which is being squeezed on all sides by high inflation.

Then again, my train season ticket has increased by over £300 a year in the three years that my salary has now been frozen. It's not a situation limited to people who drive to work.

tracey3596

Even with the current high fuel costs, if my OH had to pay to park at work it would be cheaper for me to take him/her and return to collect in the evening! (We actually looked at this quite seriously.)
Rural setting; under 14 miles each way; car does average over 60m.p.g ....... is this being encouraged to go green?

System

tracey3596 wrote: »

it would be cheaper for me to take him/her and return to collect in the evening! (We actually looked at this quite seriously.)
Rural setting; under 14 miles each way; car does average over 60m.p.g ....... is this being encouraged to go green?

It isn't actually

An extra 28 miles per day at 60MPG = £2.93 for fuel (@£1.38/L) not including additional wear & tear on vehicle
Assuming 5 day week and working 48 weeks per year makes £288 = £1.20 per day

PasturesNew

pinkteapot wrote: »

I do agree - I said last night that a lot of people have to use pay and display or other paid-for parking and £288+VAT per year wasn't that much per day. Still, if people are used to free parking it's another dent in their monthly budget which is being squeezed on all sides by high inflation.

Then again, my train season ticket has increased by over £300 a year in the three years that my salary has now been frozen. It's not a situation limited to people who drive to work.

The cost of petrol/diesel's already increased for drivers, so that's not an appropriate comparison.

How about if your station started charging £3/day to get off at the station under cover, or you can be let off 1/4 of a mile away and walk along a footpath for free?

We all know petrol/train fares will change and probably increase... but this is an entirely NEW cost. A bizarre and unfair one too.

What next? Tax for owning a garage and parking in your own garden? Get more people that way .....

PasturesNew

tracey3596 wrote: »

Even with the current high fuel costs, if my OH had to pay to park at work it would be cheaper for me to take him/her and return to collect in the evening! (We actually looked at this quite seriously.)
Rural setting; under 14 miles each way; car does average over 60m.p.g ....... is this being encouraged to go green?

At under 14 miles it'd make more sense to get a comfortable/safe (maybe 3 wheeler) moped/similar.

vax2002

It depends how savy the Employer is, make the car park disabled parking only, implement a company disabled parking scheme, get the company doctor to check all those minor ailments normal folk just live with yet others claim for, issue permits and stick their own rules right up em, !