SRC praises Glasgow’s decision to shelve Workplace Parking Levy

Reacting to reports that Glasgow City Council has shelved plans to introduce Workplace Parking Levies (Glasgow workplace parking charge plan to be dropped - Business Insider), the Director of the Scottish Retail Consortium, David Lonsdale, said:

“Workplace parking levies are a charter for extra cost and complexity which would see firms taxed twice for the parking places they provide for colleagues, on top of the business rates already paid on those spaces. The growing burden of statutory costs that firms are facing would likely see employers seek to recoup some or all of the cost of any parking levies from colleagues. We applaud Glasgow’s decision to shelve plans for such levies.”

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Note: Scottish Retail Consortium gave written and oral evidence to the Scottish Parliament when the WPL legislation was initially introduced. SRC subsequently provided a written submission to Holyrood’s Transport Committee’s consideration of WPL.