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Stafford keeps tax rate flat in face of millions in budget loses, coronavirus

They sat in silence for three minutes — no one willing to make a motion. 

The Stafford County Board of Supervisors on during its Tuesday, April 21 meeting had to make a decision on a tax rate in order to ensure the Real Estate tax bills would go out 30 days before the deadline on June 5. 

In a 5-2 vote, the Board decided to keep the tax rate at the .97 cents per $100 of assessed Real Estate property value. It's an equalizing rate that, essentially, keeps both the tax rate and the tax bills flat, meaning the county won't get any more tax revenues than it did last year. Supervisors Tinesha Allen and Cindy Shelton were the dissenting votes. 

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