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Stafford rejects BPOL tax after marathon public hearing

Restaurants, hotels, breweries and other businesses stay outside a proposed gross-receipts tax after supervisors failed to adopt Ordinance O26-34. The county's merchants' capital tax survives, and the ordinance would have displaced it.

VHN Staff · Oct 19, 2026 · Fredericksburg & Central Virginia

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Stafford Weighs Gross-Receipts Tax for Restaurants, Hotels and Other Businesses

The advertised BPOL ordinance exempts businesses at $2 million or less, then taxes all receipts once a business passes it. A restaurant doing $38,500 a week is at the line. The hearing is Sept. 15.

VHN Staff · Sep 13, 2026 · Fredericksburg & Central Virginia