Yet another raid on your pocket?

If you live in Nottingham you may find going to work even more of a pain from this month - the city is the first in the UK to start imposing a tax on businesses which provide more than 10 parking spaces for their employees, and not surprisingly most of the businesses affected will pass on the charge to their workers.  It seems a strange idea - not least because it takes no account of the number of employees a business has.  Obviously ten spaces will be adequate for a firm with ten or less workers, whereas a big company with hundreds of employees will probably not even be able to provide free parking spaces for senior management.  The idea of course is to encourage (force?) people on to public transport.  One member of my family works a shift pattern and occasionally has to start work at 5.00 a.m.  The buses round here don't start running until 5.30.  What are they supposed to do??