Councils across the UK are considering a new tax which will see workers hit with a charge if they decide to drive to work.
The scheme was first introduced in 2012 but so far only been implemented in one city. However, this could be about to increase dramatically.
Green "workplace parking levies" see companies billed for parking spaces in a bid to lower pollution and congestion - with the charge "largely" passed on to workers.
Towns and cities said to be considering bringing it "workplace parking levies" include Birmingham, Brighton, Warrington, Bath, Luton, Norwich and Colchester.
Cambridge, Leicester, Oxford, Bristol and the London boroughs of Hounslow and Camden are also thought to be pondering the scheme, according to the Mirror.
It's not yet known if Manchester will bring the scheme into place.
Motoring associations including the AA and RAC have denounced the schemes, with the latter calling it 'in effect a tax on a person going to work'.
Cambridge and Hounslow are proposing to charge up to £1,000 per space each year, while Leicester City Council is looking to charge up to £550.
Bristol is said to be considering a charge of £400 but no plan has been submitted yet. Other councils are reported to be still at the assessment or planning stage.
In Nottingham, the only English city which has introduced the model so far, there is a charge of £428 per space, but this will rise to £458 from April.
More than half of the costs have been passed on to staff.
The AA has called the parking charge a "poll tax on wheels" while the RAC said it is effectively "tax on going to work".
AA spokesman Luke Bosdet said: “The levy is really just a poll tax on wheels that not only raids workers’ pay packets, while trying to place the blame on employers, but hits the lower-paid hardest.
“Councils try to justify this tax as a way of raising money for their pet transport projects.’ He said a more ‘viable and proven’ alternative is park-and-ride schemes.”
Nicholas Lyes, the RAC’s roads policy chief, said: “The cost will almost certainly be passed down to workers, so in effect it becomes a tax on a person going to work.
“This especially affects lower-paid workers who may not have any other way of getting to work.”
A spokesperson from the Department for Transport told The Mirror it hasn’t received any proposals for new “workplace parking levies” during this Parliament.
It is up to councils to decide parking arrangements for their area, they said.
The Transport Act 2000 sets requirements of local authorities looking to introduce “workplace parking levies” and any revenue raised from such a scheme must be put toward local transport policies.
