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A few thoughts (I use to work for Boots, well the company that bought them :wink:), and visited their Nottingham HO often.
If they have 1000 car park spaces, but only 900 car 'users' - is the charge £250,000 or £225,000?
If they pay for all (or some) employees, maybe due to a 'business' requirement - does that mean that these (or all) employees will have a 'benefit-in-kind), and HMR&C will be involved?
What about visitors to the site, who work at different locations - will visitor parking spaces be allowed, and monitored?
If its £250 and paid by the employee, do they get their money back if they leave the company part-way through the year - and if they start mid-year is ita again pro-rata'd?
Oh, and its just a tax, nothing more, nothing less - if the council wanted to change peoples' actions, the charge would be £1000 minimum.
I work on an industrial estate in Chippenham, and due to limited space only certain staff have spaces available. Most of them live considerable distances away, and a lot work shifts. In North Wilts public transport is hopelessly impractical, one of my work colleagues lives seven miles away, and doesn't ride a bike, he's a big bloke in his fifties and starts at six in the morning. As he doesn't have a car at the mo', he gets a taxi, at £9 a trip. It takes him about ten minutes to get home. If he caught a bus, it would take him two miles the wrong way to the town centre, where he'd change to another bus that would go round the lanes to various villages, and he'd arrive home two hours after leaving work, and it would cost him £8.
Use public transport? What a joke.