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typical rate for that in counties that have it is about one dollar per hundred dollars of sales. The other possibility is a business license, Mr. McCarthy said. Fauquier County has such a system and it comes out to about 30 cents per hundred dollars in sales, he said.
Mr. McCarthy said that Rappahannock had a merchant’s capital tax in the past. One year it raised $10,000, he said. Other years it raised less. “These are two means of taxing business,” he said. “Like the meals and lodging tax, there’s not much income there.”
Mr. Estes said he was concerned that if such taxes were enacted some businesses might close. “I’ve done a rough count of businesses in Pied
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