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ports, it looks like it will be one cent or less. One cent. That’s the “gross inequity” that will be transferred in 1983 to the 90 percent of Rappahannock’s taxpayers who are not eligible for land use.
We do not quarrel with Eastham’s contention that the county faces a fiscal emergency. It’s an emergency anytime taxpayers have to shoulder a 50 percent increase in the levy—from the current 32 cents per $100 of assessed value to the proposed 48 cents. But it was going to come sometime. According to the State Department of Taxation’s figures, Rappahannock’s true effective tax rate decreased at least 30 percent between 1966 and 1982. That happened because we looked the other way when faced with revenue demands.
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