Parking tax

[DimPrawn]

'Tax' on workplace car parks begins - Telegraph


Nottingham City Council, which is running the scheme, said it will help fund major transport improvements in the area.


But the AA dubbed the scheme ''a tax on work'' which would damage local businesses and employees.


Known officially as a Workplace Parking Levy (WPL), the scheme requires companies in the city of Nottingham to pay an annual fee of £288 for each parking space on offer to employees if more than 10 spaces are provided.


Companies with 10 or fewer places and emergency services do not have to pay any charge but do need to be licensed under the WPL scheme.






How about a tax everytime you turn the steering wheel left or right?

[MarillionFan]

I have invented a flying car so shall just leave it hovering 10ft up to avoid this tax.

threaded

[Bunk]

I have invented a flying car so shall just leave it hovering 10ft up to avoid this tax.

threaded

If he fits his flux capacitor to it he could park it 8 hours into the future and just pick it up when he finishes work

[DimPrawn]

Threaded hasn't updated his blog since Nov 2011. I suspect he's dead.

[Bunk]

Threaded hasn't updated his blog since Nov 2011. I suspect he's stuck in 1955.

FTFY

[BigTime]

Boots were considering avoiding this:
Boots 'outraged' by workplace parking levy

No doubt Gideon would have found this morally repugnant and stop buying his lunch there.

[d000hg]

Do business rates cover the land taken up by car-parks, given that the car-park is often more/comparable square-footage than the building it serves?

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Boots were considering avoiding this:
Boots 'outraged' by workplace parking levy

No doubt Gideon would have found this morally repugnant and stop buying his lunch there.

They didn't IIRC employees wound up paying. I also seem to recall this was originally a fatso(as he then was) Lawson idea that got shelved.

[OwlHoot]

Threaded hasn't updated his blog since Nov 2011. I suspect he's dead.

Wouldn't be surprised - He always claimed Dutch motorists were all on a mission to knock him off his bike.

[Sockpuppet]

Boots were considering avoiding this:
Boots 'outraged' by workplace parking levy

No doubt Gideon would have found this morally repugnant and stop buying his lunch there.

Have you seen how big the Boots site is? It has its own fire station FFS.

Boots, Nottingham - Google Maps