Tax Relief
The Democrats won a significant tax cut for Virginia’s working families, taking over 140,000 low-income Virginians off of the tax rolls.
The Governor also negotiated important business tax reforms, preventing imposition of the business, professional, and occupational license (BPOL) tax on motor fuels tax payments and making taxation of machinery and tools used by manufacturers more consistent.
The Governor’s proposed constitutional amendment allowing local property tax relief for homeowners also passed the 2007 General Assembly and will be introduced for its second passage in the 2008 session.
Historically, the Democratic members of the State Legislature have pressed for a repeal or reduction of sales taxes on groceries.
Read more about this topic: Democratic Party Of Virginia, Legislative Initiatives
Famous quotes containing the words tax and/or relief:
“But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even look up to heaven, but was beating his breast and saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’”
—Bible: New Testament, Luke 18:13.
“If the king is in the palace, nobody looks at the walls. It is when he is gone, and the house is filled with grooms and gazers, that we turn from the people, to find relief in the majestic men that are suggested by the pictures and the architecture.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)