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

N1AK

If the government/council/whomever is going to generate income via tax then this is about as good a method as any. It makes public transport a comparitively better option which may help increase use and decrease pollution. Sounds like a better idea than increasing council tax to raise the same amount.

heathcote123

Next it will be a tax on having the use of a kettle at work. It's almost like they're trying to discourage working altogether.

There is no justifaction for new taxes, we already have plenty. Anyone supporting this is facepalmingly dim.

Council jobsworths should be sacking themselves rather than looking at new ways to skin the people that pay for it all.

Now, has anyone checked whether Nottingham councils employees have managed to exempt themselves from it?

heathcote123

N1AK wrote: »

If the government/council/whomever is going to generate income via tax then this is about as good a method as any. It makes public transport a comparitively better option which may help increase use and decrease pollution. Sounds like a better idea than increasing council tax to raise the same amount.

Absolutely. By the time the employee has arrived at work, they've already had the employees NI, PAYE, employers NI, Business Rates, Car tax, fuel duty (and vat on fuel duty) and it's clearly not enough.

The money raised will undoubtely not go into a general pot of taxation, and most definitely not get swallowed up by council bloat, pay rises and pensions.

And then when they find they've spent the money again, they absolutely will not just tax something else. After all, government owns everything yes?

How about a tyre tax? - I believe they are undertaxed at the moment, and that could be a real boost to public transport.

buglawton

ChiefGrasscutter wrote: »

Which your promptly claim back on your tax form as an "essential expense involved in doing your job".

Just like I do for my petrol to work... er... NOT

vax2002

I have a friend who was suspended from work for breech of confidentiality for 4 months, his crime was pointing out in a cost cutting meeting that the council were charged £34 for an A4 500 pack of paper, the exact same make could be bought in the shop next door for £4 !
He very nearly lost his job, apparently it was a breech of confidentiality to reveal the "preference negotiated rates" the council were given by the stationary company.
That's where the money goes.

flashnazia

Great. Another tax on working.

thescouselander

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.

Bristol city council are planning something similar and are watching the Nottingham scheme closely. The difference in Bristol is the public transport of woeful and there will be no tram (or anything else for that matter) to compensate.

heathcote123

PasturesNew wrote: »

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.

How does that seem fair?

If you walk into a shop and get charged £1.00 for a can of coke, and the next guy gets charged 50p, and the guys after that £3.00 is that 'fair'? How about the council head that pays themselves 8k in wages and 150k in dividends. What rate do they pay?

Is fair value determined by peoples wages?

If everything was calculated like that, there would be no benefit in working harder.

A._Badger

thescouselander wrote: »

Bristol city council are planning something similar and are watching the Nottingham scheme closely. The difference in Bristol is the public transport of woeful and there will be no tram (or anything else for that matter) to compensate.

There's an easy way to counter this. People need to rise-up and vote these imbeciles out of office - not just by switching from Labour to Tory or Lib Dumb, but by standing as independents if need be.

And once those independents are elected, they need to root-out the entryist politically driven council employees who are (most often) agitating for these back-to-the-stone-age 'green' policies, behind the scenes.

grizzly1911

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.

That is what happens at my wife's place of work, but is quite blunt with people in groups by wage bands. It was recently increased by some 50% but the chief executive stated it was a "modest increase", perhaps it was on his salary but not to 80% of the actual people on site.

Whilst it does have a core regular, but not overly frequent bus service (semi rural), it doesn't cover anywhere near the 24/7 working patterns required so essentially is a tax on workers.