Legalised Parking on the pavement

[Linford]

It is. And when I no longer work for that company I will no longer need the flat.

You will move into a cardboard box on the pavement when you finish working there ? - no wonder you are complaining about the cars parked there.

Will you also give up the luxury of the car which you never drive also ?

 

[Linford]

do you pay tax on that as a benefit in kind?

Don't expect an answer. Awkward questions prompt long silences from srw when his back is against the wall.

 

[srw]

do you pay tax on that as a benefit in kind?

I don't. I'm no expert on tax, but I believe that parking at an office is not treated as a taxable BIK.

It would be good if it were, of course - it might provide yet another incentive for a more sensible, non-car-based economy.

 

[Linford]

[QUOTE 1913387, member: 45"]Of course this has everything to do with parking on the pavement, and it's a diversion away from the matter at hand...[/quote]

You mean making your problem, someone else's problem and them not feeling responsible for that

 

[Linford]

I don't. I'm no expert on tax, but I believe that parking at an office is not treated as a taxable BIK.

It would be good if it were, of course - it might provide yet another incentive for a more sensible, non-car-based economy.

They pay business rates on not just the building, but also the parking. If they are allowing you to park there, then that is a BIK - which is something which should be declared. You obviously haven't.....

 

[srw]

They pay business rates on not just the building, but also the parking. If they are allowing you to park there, then that is a BIK

No it's not.
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/paye/exb/a-z/c/car-parking-spaces.htm

As I've already said, it would be a sensible step to make it a taxable BIK.

 

[ufkacbln]

Nobody would park down there unless they were visiting someone TBH.

Uniquely so I suspect!

That is why there are now so many resident's parking schemes and controlled parking areas.


In most residential areas, commuting traffic is becoming a massive issue. Drivers commute the long distance to a town, patk n residential areas to avoid car parking charges and then make the final short trip by other means.

I know of one group who take it in turns to do this. All 5 drive into Portsmouth, park in the residential area, get into one car and that then drives to the workplace. 80% savings on car parking charges!

 

[PK99]

[QUOTE 1913387, member: 45"]Of course this has everything to do with parking on the pavement, and it's a diversion away from the matter at hand...[/quote]

It is not actually, if someone does not need to park outside their flat (which has no parking provision) simply because of the largesse of their employer, and accepts that that this a subsidy, then surely that is a benefit in kind not in any way related to the employment contract and should be declared as a taxable benefit,: if it is not so declared then it is hypocritical for that person to criticise others in a similar position vis a vis parking outside their house but who do not have such generous and untaxed perks from their employer.

 

[PK99]

[QUOTE 1913414, member: 45"]Parking at work is a non-taxable benefit.[/quote]

during office hours but not outside working time when the worker commutes by bike - at least not ethically

 

[PK99]

[QUOTE 1913823, member: 45"]Why is parking at work the only alternative to parking outside your house?[/quote]

it is not, but SRW is using his employer' s facilities outside working hours in lieu of paying for parking somewhere on the street. it hypocritical of him to hten take the high moral ground regarding on street parking given that fact.

 

[srw]

Even though I've said that parking should be taxed? I think you're clutching at straws.

 

[snorri]

Don't expect an answer. Awkward questions prompt long silences from srw when his back is against the wall.

Linf wanders off topic once again, nothing new there then.

 

[Linford]

Even though I've said that parking should be taxed, I'm a hypocrite in my own actions, and I now know I'm clutching at straws trying to defend them.

FTFY

Perhaps what you need to do is go and find a pay and display space near your home, and use it. Then you won't be evading what you should morally be paying, and in addition to that, you won't be wasting fuel/destroying the planet by going that extra mile every time you need to drive something too heavy for the bike to your home

 

[Linford]

Linf wanders off topic once again, nothing new there then.

Good to see another member here sees the hypocrisy in the posts of the detractors ^

srw just 'took one for the team'

 

[PK99]

[QUOTE 1913895, member: 45"]Paying for parking on the street?[/quote]
[QUOTE 1913895, member: 45"]Paying for parking on the street?[/quote]

lots of us do that to park outside our houses