Fairfax County is inching forward on a meals tax, but it’s the voters who must decide whether the county will collect a 4 percent tax on prepared meals at restaurants, deli counters, convenience stores and grocery stores.
County supervisors on the Budget Committee met Tuesday, but have not yet agreed on the language of a proposed November referendum which would lay out how the money raised by the new tax would be spent.
“Most of us feel that [it] is a revenue that we should avail ourselves of,” said Sharon Bulova, chairman of Fairfax County Board of Supervisors.
“Other jurisdictions within Fairfax County — Vienna, Herndon, Alexandria, Falls Church — all have a meals tax. We do not.”
The proposed 4 percent tax would yield about $100 million annually. Discussions center on how the added money would be spent.
Bulova is recommending that 80 percent of the money go to the public school system and 20 percent be spent on county infrastructure.
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