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By LOU HATTER
Rappahannock New* Staff Writer
Faced with opposition by local restaurants to its proposed 4 percent meals tax, the Washington Town Council agreed last Wednesday to consider another solution to the town’s funding crisis.
David Dickey, attorney for Patrick O’Connell and Reinhardt Lynch, proprietors of The Inn at Little Washington, proposed that the town consider the adoption of an across-the-board business and professional services tax rather than the meals tax, which would generate revenue from only three sources: The Inn, The Black Kettle and Brambles Cafe.
Mr. Dickey came to the meeting with copies of a similar ordinance which he had drafted, and was subsequently adopted, by Greene County in 1984. Mr. Dickey was Greene County’s attorney at the time.
His alternative has as its structure a five-tiered tax, which divides businesses into different categories based on the revenue realized by each business as a percentage of its gross income.
Basically, Mr. Dickey explained, the ordinance says that doctors and lawyers, for example, keep a larger percentage of their gross income than does a grocery store. Therefore, doc
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