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cent counties were levying on real estate at rates ranging from 53 cents to 63 cents. The statewide county average had risen to 62 cents, roundly a fourth higher than ours.
In the end, the supervisors raised the property tax rate to 58 cents — an act of considerable political courage that puts Rappahannock’s latest rate only moderately below the average of its neighbors. But note that all rates in ail our neighbor communities are being, or are about to be, imposed on current — that is, higher — land values. Warren reassessed last year. Madison is readying a reassessment now. Culpeper, Fauquier and Page plan reassessments next year. Moreover, all these adjacent counties levy a tax
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