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qahannock County is,” Reynolds continued. He presented the supervisors with information he collected last Friday from commissioners of revenue offices on current tax bills on an $80,000 house: Rappahannock—$336 Fauquier—$472 Culpeper—$472 Stafford—$968 Prince William—$1,112 Loudoun—$904 Fairfax—$1,176 Manassas Park—$1,520 Reynolds noted that taxes are higher in urbanizing counties trying to attract commercial and industrial development. “They’re moving from agricultural to residential communities. It happens all over the state, all over the country. Taxes go up.” Reynolds acknowledged that the supervisors will face knotty problems at budget time every year. But by protecting and encouraging the county’s farming industry, the problems here won’t be as difficult as those confronting governments in urbanizing counties that have given up on their agricultural base, he concluded.
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