{"id":167663782,"date":"2010-04-25T13:16:22","date_gmt":"2010-04-25T13:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=167663782"},"modified":"2010-04-25T13:16:22","modified_gmt":"2010-04-25T13:16:22","slug":"no-free-parking-not-even-for-parking-lot-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=167663782","title":{"rendered":"No free parking \u2014 not even for parking lot employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kristin Rushowy Staff Reporter<br \/>\nThere is no such thing as free parking \u2014 even if you work at a parking lot.<br \/>\nWhile the Toronto Parking Authority put up a fine fight, it has lost its appeal to overturn a tax court ruling that says employees who park their own cars for free while on the job must claim it as a taxable benefit.<br \/>\n\u201cYou are hearing more and more of a taxable benefit being applied to parking,\u201d said Gwyn Thomas, president of the parking authority, adding he wasn\u2019t surprised by the ruling.<br \/>\nEmployees park their personal vehicles at lots for a variety of reasons, he added.<br \/>\n\u201cWe have shifts \u2014 day shifts and night shifts \u2014 and employees parking in lots to work &#8230; it was all for business.\u201d<br \/>\nBut, if they park without paying, it\u2019s a taxable benefit, the tax court has ruled.<br \/>\n&#8230;.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/gta\/article\/796792--no-free-parking-not-even-for-parking-lot-employees\">https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/gta\/article\/796792&#8211;no-free-parking-not-even-for-parking-lot-employees<\/a>oldId.20100425131622973<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kristin Rushowy Staff Reporter There is no such thing as free parking \u2014 even if you work at a parking lot. While the Toronto Parking Authority put up a fine fight, it has lost its appeal to overturn a tax court ruling that says employees who park their own cars for free while on the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=167663782\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;No free parking \u2014 not even for parking lot employees&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167663782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167663782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=167663782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167663782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167663782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167663782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167663782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}