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Tourist Business Hurt
Jimmy Swindler, a selfdescribed former farmer who went broke in agriculture, acknowledged that farming is the state’s number one industry but pointed out that tourism is second. His Country Manor Gift Shop returns substantial revenue to the state and the county, he said, through dollars tourists leave on their way through Rappahannock.
He maintained .that merchants deserve a tax break as much as farmers do and will be hurt by increased taxes on licensed vehicles they need to transport stocks. “You ought to think of the merchants capital tax when you consider a change,’’ Swindler told the supervisors, noting that surrounding counties have an option Rappahannock doesn’t of shifting the farmers’ tax burden onto industry.
“Are small contractors going to get a break on the vehicles they need to conduct their business?” asked Ed Foster. The commissioner of revenue replied that all licensed vehicles whether used by a farmer or contractor would be taxed. If the burden from lifting the levy on household goods, farm machinery and livestock
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