William Connolley wrote: > 2008/9/11 James Annan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> In the UK, there have been moves to treat workplace parking explicitly >> as a taxable perk. I don't know how far this plan has gone. Of course it >> was met with predictable howls from the motoring lobby... > > Not just the motoring lobby, but everyone, because predicatably enough > firms don't want the overhead of working out who drives, so the easy > fix is to just charge everyone, which really winds people up.
Really? I've certainly heard of cases of firms threatening to pass the charge on to the motons in their staff. Of course there is potentially the issue of occasional occupancy, but an increasing number of employers use pay-parking anyway where the tax could be covered by the daily charge. If I was charged for a parking space I would permanently park up one of these in it, and at least get some enjoyment out of it: http://www.artcars.com/gardencar/index.html But then again a bit of civil disobedience probably doesn't go down so well in the corporate (mono)culture... James --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Global Change ("globalchange") newsgroup. Global Change is a public, moderated venue for discussion of science, technology, economics and policy dimensions of global environmental change. Posts will be admitted to the list if and only if any moderator finds the submission to be constructive and/or interesting, on topic, and not gratuitously rude. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/globalchange -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
