Taxing Parking

Stuff reports:

Employers who give their staff free car parks will have to pay tax on them as the Government moves to tighten the tax rules on perks used as tradeoffs for salary.

It's great to see the government acting on good advice. The only pity is the short-sightedness of the Labour party.

Labour's revenue spokesman David Clark rubbished the change, saying it was a desperate attempt to help the Government meet its Budget target. It amounted to "trying to get blood out of a car park".

But I guess when you're in opposition whether a government policy is a good idea or not is irrelevant.

Ahead of the game

Dompost.co.nz reports. Glad to see an MP is now on the case.

And to brag a little bit, Donald Shoup was the subject of the article I linked to last week.

Taxing Parking

Stuff.co.nz reports the NZTA is about to receive a report recommending the government start taxing free work carparks.

Obviously this will infuriate the anti-tax brigade but the idea does have some real merit in encouraging more people to use public transport and car poll etc.

It also reminded me of this fantastic article I read a few months back about the cost of free parking which is well worth a read.