Posted on 03/25/2008 11:18:51 AM PDT by JZelle
RICHMOND (AP) — Refunds of taxes and fees collected unconstitutionally for Northern Virginia road projects are on their way back to those who paid them.
Gov. Timothy M. Kaine today signed a bill passed this year that sets up procedures for returning money collected by the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority.
Among the refunds:
— The Department of Motor Vehicles will return the 1 percent initial registration fee on new vehicles and the $10 regional registration fee.
— Circuit Court clerks will work to return the grantor's tax paid on real estate sales.
— The Treasury Department will return the 2 percent levy on car rentals and hotel rooms, the $10 boost in safety inspection fees and the 5 percent sales tax applied to car repairs.
The legislation followed a Virginia Supreme Court ruling on Feb. 29 that concluded that because NVTA was governed by an unelected board, it could not legally collect taxes.
The ruling gutted NVTA and a similar regional transportation taxing authority in Hampton Roads that were major pieces of the Transportation Funding Act of 2007. The centerpiece legislation of last year, it was the first major boost in funding for Virginia roads, rails and transit in a generation.
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You mean “give refunds” ~ of course that would never happen in Maryland.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Federal and state truckers taxes should sunset. My wife works for an auditing firm specializing in truckers taxes, and you would not believe all the silly laws and confiscatory taxes that truckers pay. And this is in addition to fuel taxes.
how bout those abusive driver fees? when do the poor souls who have since filed bankruptcy get those back?
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