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wealth permits local governments to impose a recordation tax of one-third of that proposed by the state. Mrs. McDiarmid is proposing an optional recordation tax for localities equivalent to the state recordation tax.
Duval is also proposing an increased tax for transient occupancy, which would require visitors to share the road costs. With several options presented, Northern Virginia legislators are still divided among their choices of local tax options.
But with increasing pessimism about the survival of the governor’s proposed one-percent local option (tax, members of the legislature are looking for legislation to fall back on.
Patrons of the proposed local tax bills have acknowledged that their bills are not carved in stone and have expressed a willingness to amend them to reach a “genuine solution.”
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