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Board hears public hearing on new local tax-exemption ordinance for charities; action delayed two weeks
Summary
County staff introduced a draft ordinance to let qualifying charitable organizations apply for property and personal-property tax exemptions; nonprofit applicants said exemptions for trucks and equipment would boost local home-repair and disaster-response capacity. The board closed the hearing and asked staff for more information, deferring action for two weeks.
County staff presented a draft ordinance intended to let King George County consider tax exemptions for qualifying charitable organizations under Virginia law.
Mr. Stewart, speaking for county staff, said the proposal follows Article X, subsection 6(a) of the Virginia Constitution and sets out eight statutory factors the board must apply when deciding whether to exempt an organization’s real and personal property. "They would apply for that, the board would have to look at that and determine if, in fact, they qualify pursuant to these factors," Stewart said.
Representatives of two local nonprofits described their work and said a tax…
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