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janet burton
Member - 84 posts
Not quite sure how this reduces congestion - existing businesses with parking spaces (which they already pay business rates for?) cannot reduce their parking spaces to save money, so they are stuck with the extra bill, and to minimise future congestion the council can restrict planning permissions for parking spaces - much more effective. Or are the businesses only to be charged if the existing spaces are used?
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James Fairchild
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This certainly isn't business friendly. This will kill our town centres. The developers of the many out of town office parks will have a field day. They simply need to close off the individual parking for each company, build a large car park with 'free parking' for anyone, and there is your work around.
Town centres do not have this possibility.
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Bozena Benton
Member - 58 posts
As most local authorities provide a significant number of parking spaces for its own staff, how will the levy on these be managed?
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Dean Duneclift
Member - 2 posts
I fear that the results of these public consultations are never accurate. The clue is in the words themselves. "(68%) of the City of Nottingham residents who took part..." It is inevitable that those who respond to these surveys are non - car driving, tree hugging, enviromentalists, whose primary mode of transport is a rattly old bicycle, or a stinking filthy polluting Bus.
If they had asked folk at their workplaces, and people who actually drive cars,
and the companies themselves, the outcome would have been markedly different.
Enough taxes....It won't be worth going to work soon
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janet burton
Member - 84 posts
This is a tax on Businesses, not workers. So unless your boss charges you for parking in the office car park, you won't pay directly.
I'm concerned that they are calling it a congestion tax when it does nothing to ease congestion as it is not directly on the motorist - if it was it might work better at doing what it claims.
It is just a way of making the LA more money, and they are calling it a congestion tax to try and make it appear 'green'.
Also, Businesses pay for their parking spaces etc already as part of their rent to the landlord, and Business rates to Government. Parking spaces are included in assessment of rateable value, so they are already paying tax for them. I am not sure the LA has the right to supplement Business Tax in this way (though I know they can have rate supplements, these depend on what they use the funds for, and the size of the company - they cannot just do a blanket supplement).
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