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Board rejects alternate personal-property tax proposal, adopts staff starting rates for FY26 deliberations
Summary
An alternate motion to raise the general personal property rate to $4.20 while lowering the vehicle rate to $3.25 failed; the board adopted the county administrator’s proposed starting tax rates and corrected a funding error for human-service nonprofit grants.
Loudoun County supervisors debated whether to restore a historic general personal-property tax rate that would chiefly affect data-center computer equipment and other non-vehicle property while using savings to reduce vehicle taxes.
Supervisor Subrata Tacconi moved an alternate set of starting rates that would have kept the general personal-property rate at the historic $4.20 and cut the vehicle personal property rate to $3.25 for tax year 2026. Tacconi argued the change would “provide relief for residents” by lowering the vehicle tax and that the general rate historically had been $4.20 for decades. The motion text recorded in the transcript began: “I move that the Board of Supervisors begin budget deliberations at the real property tax rate of 0.805 for tax year 2025,…
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