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County must tax
tools, business
No exemptions found
By SHARON KILPATRICK < Nflmnwk N«wi Staff Writer - *.
Commonwealth’s Attorney Peter Luke told the Board of Supervisors at Monday’s meeting that he had received an ‘Informal” opinion from the Attorney General’s office that the county did have to adopt a machinery and tools tax and either a merchants’ capital tax or business licenses.
Mr. Luke said that the Attorney General’s office did not want to issue a formal opinion that would become a part of the record, but he did get a two-page letter from Roger Wiley, senior assistant attorney general, saying that there was nothing in law allowing counties to exempt such property from taxation.
“What happens if we don’t impose the tax?” Piedmont District representative Charles K. “Pete” Estes asked.
Mr. Luke answered, “I can’t find anything in the code that imposes a penalty or indicates the state can take it out of other funds, but it could come back to haunt you.”
Chairman Hubert Gilkey suggested County AdSee
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