What do you believe would be a fair price for the Falmer Season Tickets?

[sweetmods]

I don't understand. You may well be right, but...

Match tickets and public transport tickets are both subject to VAT. So what would the tax issue would be?

Also, buying separate travel tickets COULD be a hindrance to how the whole TMP would work.

No idea about what the specific tax issue is - I have just heard that there is a new HMRC problem with combining the travel vouchers with the ticket cost.

 

[magoo]

how come the 'nawvern' clubs charge more? thought it was all cheaper up there?

 

[Lord Bracknell]

I don't understand. You may well be right, but...

Match tickets and public transport tickets are both subject to VAT. So what would the tax issue would be?

Also, buying separate travel tickets COULD be a hindrance to how the whole TMP would work.

Public Transport fares are zero rated for VAT purposes. (To be precise ... VAT is not charged on bus and train fares, but is charged on taxi fares).

If the travel voucher is to be used to regulate access to the car parking sites near the stadium (the Aldridge Academy and Sussex University) - albeit for multi-occupancy vehicles (ie cars with a minimum number of match ticket holders in the vehicle) - then the VAT position gets very complicated, because car parking charges are subject to VAT.

 

[Brovion]

I have been reliably informed that the season ticket might not include the travel voucher as the club had hoped. Apparently this has something to do with some new shenanigins with the tax man. It may be that books of travel vouchers would need to be sold separately. I trust that this will be reflected in the price of tickets.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! All the while the Albion's home ground has been within walking distance I've had to pay for an unwanted and useless travel voucher. Now when the voucher would actually have some value they're going to scrap it!

I would hope the tickets would come down by about £4 to compensate.

 

[Jamie_Seagull]

Below £300 (thats an U21 though!)

 

[The Large One]

Public Transport fares are zero rated for VAT purposes. (To be precise ... VAT is not charged on bus and train fares, but is charged on taxi fares).

If the travel voucher is to be used to regulate access to the car parking sites near the stadium (the Aldridge Academy and Sussex University) - albeit for multi-occupancy vehicles (ie cars with a minimum number of match ticket holders in the vehicle) - then the VAT position gets very complicated, because car parking charges are subject to VAT.

This ought to get interesting then.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Public Transport fares are zero rated for VAT purposes. (To be precise ... VAT is not charged on bus and train fares, but is charged on taxi fares).

If the travel voucher is to be used to regulate access to the car parking sites near the stadium (the Aldridge Academy and Sussex University) - albeit for multi-occupancy vehicles (ie cars with a minimum number of match ticket holders in the vehicle) - then the VAT position gets very complicated, because car parking charges are subject to VAT.

What's difficult about this?

 

[bright1064]

It's already too expensive now as it is. I would like to think it won't be any more expensive and especially not if we are still in League 1.

 

[The Large One]

What's difficult about this?

If the same Travel Voucher system means some people use a part of the transport system which is subject to VAT at the Standard Rate, and some use a part of the transport system which is subject to VAT at the Zero Rate, it could get complicated.

First thing is, let's kill all the VATmen.

 

[Ian Bairds Fist]

It's already too expensive now as it is. I would like to think it won't be any more expensive and especially not if we are still in League 1.

Exactly. We were told the price at Withdean was that high due to the limited capacity - which was fair enough. However, now the capacity issue is non-existant we should surely be seeing some realistic pricing.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

If the same Travel Voucher system means some people use a part of the transport system which is subject to VAT at the Standard Rate, and some use a part of the transport system which is subject to VAT at the Zero Rate, it could get complicated.

First thing is, let's kill all the VATmen.

Dont you simply make a sensible estimate in situations like this?

 

[Hotchilidog]

Exactly. We were told the price at Withdean was that high due to the limited capacity - which was fair enough. However, now the capacity issue is non-existant we should surely be seeing some realistic pricing.

I'd like to think that the club will remember this.

 

[Brighton Boys on tour]

id be happy paying what we do now,obviously cheaper would be good but not a lot more!
imo i think its mad we get charged what we do now for a league 1 club

 

[durrington gull]

No more than we are paying at the Withdean that's for sure! I like the look of that Southampton bracket the most.

Agree - Surely can't be more than Withers!

 

[Brovion]

Public Transport fares are zero rated for VAT purposes. (To be precise ... VAT is not charged on bus and train fares, but is charged on taxi fares).

If the travel voucher is to be used to regulate access to the car parking sites near the stadium (the Aldridge Academy and Sussex University) - albeit for multi-occupancy vehicles (ie cars with a minimum number of match ticket holders in the vehicle) - then the VAT position gets very complicated, because car parking charges are subject to VAT.

Surely then the solution is NOT to use the travel voucher as a sort of Pay 'n' Display parking ticket? Give (or sell) parking tickets as a separate issue and keep the travel voucher as just that.

 

[Tesco in Disguise]

in reality, paying more than £10 for a ticked to see non-premiership football is a joke. it just shows how scewed this game has become that people are now willing to pay more than twice that.

if you asked this question to someone 100 years ago (even taking into account inflation), they would laugh at the options.

 

[Deleted User X18H]

Dodge suggested to me it would initially be comparable with Withdean but was likely to increase after the first season. Perhaps this may have been a 1901 sales pitch though.

 

[sir albion]

Yeah 450 is good and students should also pay this

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Dont you simply make a sensible estimate in situations like this?

Of couse. But I think you'll find that HMRC and football clubs have a way of not trusting each other.