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Tax collections soar in December, shatter even rosy forecasts By BOB LEWIS Associated Press Friday, January 14, 2005 RICHMOND, Va. - Virginia collected nearly one-fifth more in taxes last month than it did the previous December, pushing general fund revenue growth for the first half of the budget year to 13 percent, far better than official forecasts. Total general fund revenues grew by 18.7 percent in December. Even without last year's tax increases, December growth would have reached 15.5 percent and year-to-date growth would have been 10.9 percent, Finance Secretary John M. Bennett said Friday in his monthly revenue report...

From the dimocRAT party of VA website: Speaking of tax fairness (I can't believe they can still say this with a straight face), Governor Warner will host an electronic town hall meeting on tax reform this Tuesday, February 17th. The meeting will take place at 8 p.m. and will be broadcast live from the WCVE public television studios in Southside Richmond. Barbara Berlin of WCVE will host the show and the Governor will take questions from viewers and a studio audience. The televised town hall meeting will explore the governor's tax reform plan as presented to the current session of...