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Local sales tax referenda passed in several Virginia localities on November 3 and failed in many more. Prepared food, alcohol and hot foods are taxed at the full rate, so operators in the approving jurisdictions face a one-point increase on every check.
VHN Staff · · Statewide
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 · · Fredericksburg & Central Virginia
The Cannabis Control Authority's first draft sets fees, security rules and a 350-store retail cap ahead of adult-use sales in July 2027. For hospitality operators the decisive rule is already law: no marijuana license may be granted at a place where alcohol or tobacco is made, sold or used.
VHN Staff · · Statewide
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 · · Fredericksburg & Central Virginia
