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Dyke is seeking a five percent cap on individual property tax. Such a cap would require a constitutional amendment to change state law. Localities could make up the revenue, he said, from increased taxes on new construction and property resales.
Though Dyke found the Finance Committee unresponsive and unwilling to get involved in local government affairs, he and other COST members have been more successful at home.
Sen. Clive DuVal, D-Fairfax, and other members of the Northern Virginia delegation expressed serious reservations about the constitutionality of a cap on individual tax increases.
“It’s discriminating against one taxpayer over another,” said DuVal. If a taxpayer’s real estate is more
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