Results tagged “car park tax” from Birmingham Mail - Is It Just Me

This idea of a tax on parking spaces has been kicking around since the Transport Act of 2000, just waiting for a council with a death wish to try it. It comes down to a tax on jobs and industry which will either put prices up for all of us as firms pass on extra costs or, much more likely, will result in redundancies with costs taken from the wages of remaining staff who use a parking space.

It will encourage firms to dispense with parking spaces which means staff will be parking in nearby streets or firms will move to areas where they are not taxed for trying to provide employment.

This is just another way of raising revenue with claims it will encourage public transport just a smokescreen. Public transport in this country is a shambles. The public it serves are the shareholders and owners while prices are the highest in any civilised country despite being paid subsidies that would have virtually financed British Rail as a free service.

So how about picking a date, let's say Monday, October 5, and calling it National Public Transport day. And on that day everyone in the country leaves their car at home and travels to work by public transport. Then Ministers can tell us all just how good and efficient our transport system really is.