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“If we go to 100 per cent, don’t we almost have to go to land use if we want to keep things on an even keel?” asked supervisor H. B. Wood.
Status Quo
“If you want to maintain the status quo,” Forberg replied. He acknowledged that Rappahannock’s current "conservative” appraisals appear to generate sufficient revenue to fund the county’s operating budget.
“If it’s working the way things are, why do we have to change?” Wood asked. He requested commonwealth’s attorney Douglas Baumgardner to write for an attorney general’s opinion as to whether the state can legally withhold ABC revenue from counties that fail to comply with the requirement for 100 per cent assessment.
Commissioner of Revenue Merle Scoggin, at the suggestion of the supervisors, checked recently with Madison County on the cost of administering use value assessment. “The program is more or less self-supporting for the first couple of years,”
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