Restaurant owners in Virginia Beach say the city’s 7.5 percent meals tax is driving up costs for both businesses and customers, and now the Virginia Beach Restaurant Association is launching a campaign to push for a reduction.
For Zero’s Subs owner Mark Stevens, every credit card transaction comes with an added burden. He says he not only collects the city’s meals tax, but also pays credit card processing fees on the taxes collected.
“But it does cost you — cost me quite a bit of money every time I take a credit card and it includes a taxes cost of me personally 3% that I sent the city because they don’t give us a credit,” Stevens said…