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Boots 'outraged' by workplace parking levy

Source: PersonnelToday.com - All HR news stories

Aug 26, 2009

Summary

Boots UK has threatened to move its entire car parking provision across Nottingham's city boundary to avoid paying the workplace parking levy (WPL) at its headquarters.

The chemist said it was "outrageous" the city council had approved the WPL, after the transport select committee had described the consultation process as "deeply flawed", Localgov.co.uk reported.

Peter Gibson, director of public policy at Alliance Boots, said: "This will put an additional tax burden of more than £500,000 a year on our business at a time when Nottingham businesses, workers and households will be recovering from a deep recession."

Earlier this year, Gibson told Personnel Today: "Add to that an increased administrative burden for HR, terser union negotiations and a serious recession, and it's obvious this is the wrong time to apply this."

The company's headquarters straddle both city and county

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