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Virginia Beach mayor directs staff to explore boat licensing instead of a boat-tax proposal
Summary
Mayor Charles Dyer instructed staff to drop the boat excise tax proposal from the city budget and instead ask the commissioner of the revenue to model fee-based licensing options; staff expects scenarios in the upcoming budget packet and possible discussion at the April 29 budget meeting.
Virginia Beach Mayor Charles Dyer told the City Council that he wants staff to stop pursuing a proposed boat tax and to explore a fee-based licensing alternative instead.
Mayor Dyer said the move is intended to avoid a regressive outcome raised by public commenters at a recent hearing and to give council a different set of revenue scenarios. "We think it prudent this time to direct the city manager to...get away…
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