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Appropriations Committee, met with the objectors to hear their complaints in the final hours before adjournment.
The protesters were also at a disadvantage because a Senate bill advancing the effective date of the repeal of sales tax on home heating fuels had already slipped through their fingers without more comprehensive tax measures included as amendments. The home heating fuels repeal was passed last year, but with this year’s revision it will take effect on Oct. 1 instead of July I. 1982, providing $7.6> million in tax relief.
Though no other direct forms of tax relief passed, the money spent by the state, especially for education, should make it easier for local governments to hold down taxes, said Del. Dorothy S. McDiarmid (DFairfax).
Pressing for tax relief bills is eiection-year ••grandstanding." said McDiarmid. a member of the Appropriations Committee. "We're sending a lot more money back to the localities in basic school aid." she said of the budget bill. “That's a tax relief bill, too."
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