The Shadow
Dear Sir,
The headline in Saturday’s Virginian Review was “Repeal Of Machinery, Tool Tax Would Have A Devastating Effect On City, County.”
Please read the below information and see who voted yes to exempt local taxes on machinery and tools in HB613.
Description (HB613) Personal property tax: machinery and tools.
Classifies new investments in machinery and tools for manufacturing, processing and reprocessing, mining, and television broadcasting made after July 1, 2010, as intangible personal property and not subject to local property tax.
February 16, 2010 vote: Defeated #2 (48-Y; 50-N), Delegate Morgan Griffith voted yes to exempt this local tax from machinery and tools. From this vote, it would appear he would certainly vote to exempt all local taxes on machinery and tools that may soon be proposed.
As Saturday’s paper pointed out, Alleghany County would lose each year about $6,750,000 in revenue, more than all real estate revenues, and Covington city, $4,100,000. Loss of this revenue would at the present time more than double our personal property taxes. Many of us would lose our homes.
Delegate Morgan Griffith is the opponent to Congressman Rick Boucher in the 9th District this November. This Delegate Griffith does not even live in the 9th District and from this vote alone he shows he knows nothing of how we live here.
There should be another headline in the Virginian Review that reads “Electing Delegate Morgan Griffith To Be Our Congressman Would Be Devastating To The City, County.”
Sincerely,
George Keller
Cliftwood Circle
Clifton Forge
