Something new to tax....

[megah0]

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20090731...d-6323e80.html

Commuters could be charged £185 a year to leave cars at work under the scheme, with the sum rising by 2014 to £350 per parking bay for firms with 11 or more spaces.

This angers me.

[0iD]

How bizarre, if it came to it, I'd park in the road.

[Grey M@a]

Not beneficial to a lot of people but if tis was enforced I would easily pay £350 a year to park at the Uni I work for, currently they charge something like £900 a year, so I just go off and park in the housing estates on the west end of town and walk into work.

[Jay]

just mark out 1 huge parking space....

[peterb]

There is a large new building, designed for co-location, where I work. Expected number of people on the new site is about 3,000 - planning regulations (it seems) only allows for parking spaces for 2,000. Public transport to the site? None.

[McMav]

I already pay for a parking space at work wonder how this would affect me no doubt just be added on top.

[megah0]

It angers me that you save up for a car and its rapidly coming to the point where you can't actually afford to use the damn thing!

Once again the motorist is targeted to raise revenue for the Government.

I would also imagine that businesses will be charged the fee and they would be expected to pass the costs on to their employees. Wonder how many businesses that would push under if say their premises had a large number of spaces but say relatively few employees, somewhere like an industrial estate perhaps.

[alpha channel]

Well this government know full well they'll not win the next election (I sure as hell won't be voting for them) so they're going all out to screw everyone they can (a tax on a nice view being one) with the motorist being a good ole target for ripping off. Over £40 billion in tax taken off the motorist and not even a quarter of it going back in to the transport system (which includes rail and public transport never mind the road infrastructure that'd put a third world country to shame. It's getting to the point where I live that you need a 4x4 just to use the roads they're so badly maintained, they can't even patch the damns things right).

[Andy3536]

Truely shocking, how can they think they're ever going to get re-elected after announcing that? Glad i don't live in Nottingham and i just hope that the scheme doesn't extend to other areas. Make's you wonder if you could refuse to pay it if there were no or poor transprt links to your place of work....

[Workaholic]

What type of spaces does this apply to?

Will it avoid shopping centres and retail parks, if so how many spots. If not will the site management of these employ numbnit clampers to tackle anyone do parks too long, i.e. workers from accross the work etc

[Flash477]

Given all the road tax we pay, which probably only around 10% if that goes to deal with the roads, and the state of the roads (potholes everywhere) - I think that it is a bloomin cheek.

I'd say to them bring the roads up to par and I'd consider it, but it would cost them billions to get all the roads back into the state that they should be if road tax had actually been used for what it was meant for. That's the reason that they keep taxing the morist, not because they want to be green, but to try and reduce the wear on the roads by trying to keep us off them.

[KidChameleon]

I thought I heard this option had been introduced in 2000 but no council has applied for permission to use it until now. So it's not something the government has suddenly come up with to make themselves more unpopular.