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THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 2009
Legitimate
concerns
We heard from many readers about last week’s news
story and editorial regarding The Inn at Little
Washington and town revenue, including several who complained that we were advocating that town officials reveal tax revenues paid by individual businesses — something that Virginia law forbids.
What we w ere trying to suggest was that if the breakdown of tax figures is not readily available to those who need them, there is a real nsk to those who have taken on the heavy debt associated with building a new sewer system. That's the town, and all those who own property within its boundaries.
We will concede that, in the heat of the deadline moment, we were perhaps too aggressive in expressing that concern We were not suggesting that anyone break the law.
Legally, there is only one entity which can release any of The Inn's tax figures to the public, and that is The Inn itself.
We did not mean to suggest otherwise. We were simply Hying to explain to readers why our story didn’t dissect the tax figures, which, we felt, would be the logical expectation of many of them.
In the Town of Washington, we have the rare instance of a single business accounting for the lion's share of tax reve-nue
The news story on last week’s front page made it clear that The Inn's revenue is significantly down this summer.
That we might have been a bit awkward in expressing some parts of our concern doesn't negate its legitimacy.
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