Atlanta Mulls Tax on Off-Airport Parking

Here's a good story to keep in mind for those who travel out of the world's busiest airport - Atlanta. While the airport, of course, has the most control over the parking that it controls, it does have an influence on off-airport parking sites as well. In Atlanta's case, it charges parking owners a fee per parking space to help cover the price of grand transportation.

But now the airport wants to change things up for more revenue - it is now pursuing a new 8% on gross parking revenues. The airport says they're not covering their ground transportation costs and this should fix it.

Of course, if the costs of off-airport parking operators go up, they'll be inclined to increase their fees for passengers to compensate for the new tax. One nice (potential) benefit for the airport, then, is that on-airport parking starts to look for attractive from a cost perspective.

Either way, this doesn't shake out all that well for consumers. The Atlanta City Council must approve the measure.

More details here.