Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney has proposed a meals tax increase from 6 percent to 7.5 percent to fund renovation and construction projects for city schools. Some opponents, like restaurant owners are not happy about the potential of a half percentage meals tax increase. Jake Crocker of the Richmond Restaurant Alliance says they are being saddled […]
Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney has suggestions for improvements of city schools. Stoney is proposing an increase in the city’s meals tax to fund school renovations and new construction. Stoney says a one-point-five-percent increase in the tax will generate more than nine-million dollars annually. An increase in the meals tax would allow the city’s debt capacity […]
