haha but this will completely defeat the purpose of driving

How about changing your plates then? Costs $18 I think and its like a fresh start? Or do they check the vins and stuff.

fockkk but i like my plates :(

Maybe I'm getting old, but I think this thread needs some perspective...

If you can afford to pay 5K+ a year in tuition, I think a few hundred bucks a year for a parking pass should be affordable. I don't have any sympathy if you can afford to drive to school, pay tuition, and enjoy all of the other perks of student life. Moreover, instead of complaining about parking rates, I would complain more about the declining quality of the education, the corporatization of the campus with no tangible benefits to the students, and the diminishing value of a bachelor's degree before complaining about a couple hundred bucks. Just sayin'.

I took the #25 to and from campus 5 days a week for 5 years which amounted to 2 hours of my time per day. Pay up or get on the bus.

^ its not a few hundred bucks... its almost 1000. In 4 years that's almost a full year of tuition already. How is that affordable? Probably costs as much as the average university students car lol...

a lot of university students who can afford to park drive really nice cars: 3 series, m3, c series, 350z, g35, porsche, etc. etc.

Yeh it makes sense if they can afford that much to park then they probably have a nice car. Therefore the parking lots are full of nice cars. They are not the ones complaining

The point of this thread is about dual taxation

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it's about tax on tax.

not so much on parking rates.

Parking is not supposed to be affordable for the average student. Driving to school is a privilege, not a right.

Sounds like things haven't changed one bit since I was there.

Yes, I know what the thread is about, but my point was that if you can afford to drive to school, you can afford a few extra bucks. All parking lots, not just UBC's, are subject to a double tax.

On a side note, before HST, I was theoretically double-taxed on everything else via the PST.

UPass

Use it :troll:

if you go on the ubc parking website.

"starting jan 2010, parking tax will increase from 7% to 35%"

Last year I paid $710 tax included for 2 parkade pass,

this year, $821.50 tax included for 1 parkade pass.

WTF

no no thats just 2 taxes, the HST on the parking tax would be like putting PST on your GST