Oh Lovely. A new tax

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Thats cool I can then implement my plan B and be a winner.

Question: If I place my four wheels of my car on four patio blocks from my house (My plan B to sell 4 patio blocks gift wrapped and guaranteed) in the works car park, am I parked on my patio now classed as a mobile patio (patent pending) in the works car park or am I still parked on my patio blocks on the works car park? - Big difference of the prepositions "in" and on"

Your plan B will most likely result in a ban on sales of patio blocks to anyone except government licensed contractors.

[RichardCranium]

a mobile patio (patent pending)

'Ello, 'ello, 'ello. Do you have a tax disc for that mobile patio, sir? 'Ow about insurance or an MOT?

I see.

And does your licence permit you to drive this class of vehicle, sir?

I see.

Would you care to escort me to the station? No, that's OK sir, I do know where it is, thank you very much. I'll even give you a lift. Get in. Oh dear. Was that your head? I am sorry, sir.

[LegendsWear7]

I don't think this will take off. The british motorist is still a powerful lobby.

The British motorist is a cash-cow victim of London gov. Easy prey.

Estimated 50 BILLION received (call it a cool 1bn/week) and spent 9bn annually on road-related costs. Even my pimp would blush at that markup.

(I'm currently working in Germany and don't need a car here most of the time. Will be a real good chunk of income at home just to get to work and whatever. Feels all wrong. Is it all part of the Assist India programme ?)

Victims: click here for full source

Since 1997 Labour has been on the lucrative receiving end of colossal increases in tax receipts after millions of additional motorists have qualified to drive and purchased cars/fuel/insurance weighed down by VAT or other taxes. But the size of the major road network has increased in size by a paltry one per cent during the decade and a bit that the party has been in power.

Less than 20 per cent of the £50bn we cough up annually in motoring tax is returned to us via safer, smoother, wider or fresher roads. To put that another way, most of the £6.2bn Labour grosses a year in VAT on vehicles, plus the further £2.6bn it grabs in "company car tax" is reinvested in the network.

But the £5bn plus it makes in VED, plus the £36bn or more it trousers in VAT and other taxes on fuel is sheer "profit" which is free to be spent on other, non-car-related items.

The colossal under-spending on the roads is resulting in a network that, year on year, simply has many more vehicles per mile. Also, there are too many bodged quick fixes (such as the emergency filling in of potholes) instead of proper, preventive maintenance.

Nine out of 10 authorities have formally said the chronic underfunding is a threat to safety. There are associated environmental costs, too, because the choked, stop-start roads that the Government has now lumbered us with inevitably cause vehicles to burn more fuel, meaning an increase in exhaust emissions.

[NotAllThere]

In Zurich you have to pay.

You don't in Basel.

[OwlHoot]

.. Under the scheme, any firm with 11 or more staff parking spaces will be charged £250 a year for each. That cost could rise to £350 within two years.

Employers would be free to pass the cost on to their staff. An estimated 40,000 commuters in Nottingham drive to work and some businesses have threatened to leave the area if the scheme is introduced. ...

Labour really know how to hoover up antivotes. At this rate they'll be lucky to have more than a single-digit number of seats after the next election.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Labour really know how to hoover up antivotes. At this rate they'll be lucky to have more than a single-digit number of seats after the next election.

I think they will lose next time, but most posters on here wouldn't vote Labour even if Maggie was their new leader and Winston Churchill was in the cabinet - it's the people who have voted for them in the past they need to worry about.