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Unread 07-09-2014, 18:35   #11
James Howard
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We are indeed very lucky to have held onto the Taxsaver but if you were to end up paying full-whack for an annual commuter, that would completely gut what is left of the commuter traffic. When I was faced with having to spend 380 on a monthly pass, I totted it up and it would have only ended up costing me about 40 or 50 euro more to buy individual day returns for the 15 or so days I would end up travelling. I like a lot of the really long-distance commuter work from home 4 or 5 days a month.

When you also add in a month's worth of holidays and the 10 bank holidays, there is relatively little difference in the non Taxsaver ticket price and individual day returns. It really is only the tax benefit that makes commuter tickets worthwhile at all
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