Workplace Parking Levy

Sean9015

Has anyone heard any more on this - or has it been lost in the bigger picture? According to the Finance Bill, the Minister is supposed to lay before the Dáil a definition of urban areas. In an article in the Indo reporting on a Finance Committee grilling, Lenihan is supposed to have said that in the GDA area it would apply to the city council area only, not the other four council areas - link here:

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/lenihan-keen-to-find-nations-missing-millionaires-1568802.html

I cannot find any reference to designation so far. As a non-car user, I don't have a problem, but some of my colleagues are, er, concerned (!) here in the Dun Laoghaire Rathdown area!

Cheers

Sean

dcr22B

Seán,

I do the payroll in my office and I hadn't received any confirmation from Revenue that it was to be implemented. On ringing Revenue, their automated voice decided that the customer service agents were far too busy to speak to me (I didn't mind holding but maybe they were busy doing nothing as usual).

Contacted IBEC and they confirmed that it's not officially in law and they forecast it will be April 2009 at the earliest before it "may" be implemented. IBEC will contact me when they have more news and I'll post it up here for everyone's benefit.

As far as I know, it's only Dublin city centre which will be affected.

crocro

The draft revenue guidelines are here:
http://www.revenue.ie/en/practitioner/law/parking-levy.pdf

IBEC's web site has some information here:
http://agenda.ibec.ie/e_article001289150.cfm?x=b11,0,w

It's a modest proposal, had the government decided to treat parking spaces like any other benefit-in-kind, the tax would have been four times higher.

Sean9015

Thanks for the replies.

I left a comment on the Finance Department website on this question, and got the following:

Question :
Please could you advise if the areas to be subject to the Workplace Parking Levy have yet been determined? If so, can you advise where these details may be found, if not when is the decision likely to be made? Thanks

Answer :
The decision has not been made yet. The Minister has stated that the decision will be made during the first half of this year.

This appears to confirm that it is all on hold!

Sean

ciaran75

in my office in the centre of town we now have to pay the levy of €200 per car. most people have decided against it.

AlekSmart

I would strongly dispute a situation where ANY employer was already deducting a sum under such a heading.

In fact I believe it to be Illegal.

The plan as unveiled in the budget must count as one of the vaguest and poorly considered crocks of cack ever to escape from Dàil Eireann.

Once you fail to begin with a solid piece of easily understood and implimented leglislation then its doomed to failure (probably EXPENSIVE failure).

Simplicity and Clarity are the pre-requisites for ANY positive leglislation and this is conspicuously absent here.

In the meantime ciaran75,draft a strong letter seeking a full refund plus expenses or see them in court !!!!

GerardKeating

ciaran75 wrote: »

in my office in the centre of town we now have to pay the levy of €200 per car. most people have decided against it.

An interesting new wrinkle to this, it seems on also has to live in the urban area as well as work the, details here.