Northern Virginia leaders are treading cautiously with newly granted power to increase the sales tax in local jurisdictions.
Under the biennial state budget adopted in Richmond late last month, Northern Virginia localities now have the power to hold voter referendums to increase sales taxes by up to 1%, with the extra funding going to transportation, education or a combination.
“As a region, we should be looking at this, [but] as a region, this is something we need to talk a lot more about,” Hunter Mill District Supervisor Walter Acorn said at the July 2 Northern Virginia Transportation Commission (NVTC) board of directors meeting…