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study follows the recent release of two other studies that cited Virginia’s business-friendly policies and low taxes.
• The Council on State Taxation (COST), a nonprofit trade association, released an Ernst & Young study of total business tax collections in relation to their percentage of the gross state product. The study ranked Virginia’s percentage, along with both North Carolina and Delaware, as the lowest in the nation, at 3.7 percent.
• Pollina Real Estate, Inc., a top U.S. corporate site relocation expert, released an independent study in late March ranking Virginia as the second most businessfriendly state in the nation. The Pollina study took a comprehensive approach to evaluating and ranking states based on a total of 29 factors, including taxes.
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