Currently, only businesses with gross receipts over $500,000 pay a BPOL tax, a tax enacted to fund the second war between the U.S. and the British in 1812. The threshold has been in place since 2022 after the Prince William Chamber of Commerce pushed county supervisors in 2015 to increase the taxation threshold from $250,000.
Today, the county levies a BPOL tax on a business’s gross receipts and uses the funds to help fund the local government. However, its implementation can vary widely among jurisdictions, leading to disparities in business tax burdens.
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Six months into his tenure as Gainesville Planning Commissioner, Dr. John W. Lyver, IV, passed away unexpectedly on June 16, 2024, while on a personal trip to Canada.
Lyver, 67, of Heritage Hunt in Gainesville, was appointed to the Prince William Planning Commissioner by Gainesville Supervisor Bob Weir on January 9, 2024. In a statement on his social media pages, Weir wrote, “He was a remarkable man whose shoes cannot easily be filled and a place in our hearts that cannot be replaced. There are no words to express my gratitude for John’s countless hours of dedicated public service to the County and decades of service to our Nation. He will be greatly missed.”
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Jesus Rosa, owner of The Puerto Rico Cafe in Manassas, is hosting the Manassas Puerto Rican Festival again. This marks the second year Rosa and his wife, Jamari, organized the event in Manassas.
"It’s a celebration of Puerto Rican culture, family, and bringing everyone together," Rosa said. "It’s diverse; it’s not just for Puerto Ricans, it’s for everyone. We want everyone to come down and enjoy the food, the music, the entertainment of your Puerto Rican friends and neighbors."
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A lawsuit brought by opponents of the Devlin technology Park rezoning faced a legal obstacle as their case was dismissed on Demurrer in front of Prince William County Circuit Court Judge Carroll Weimer, Jr.
The lawsuit alleged 30 separate allegations where county officials erred in process and public notice.
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Updated 1 p.m. -- All 111 Prince William Estates neighborhood residents who lost power on Monday had it restored by 7:30 p.m. Monday, June 10, 2024.
"Initially, it was called in as two broken poles and two broken cross arms. When our crews arrived, they found the first broken cross-arm and a second before coming across a third broken pole. So three broken poles total," said Dominion Energy spokeswoman Aisha Khan. "Also, there was an untraceable gas line connected to the third broken pole, causing it to be a tough dig for our crews.
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Gov. Glenn Youngkin and state lawmakers are scrambling after veterans' families lost education benefits following the approval of the state budget.
The topic dominated a recent Town hall meeting attended by multiple local state elected officials from Prince William County. The elected officials unanimously pledged to fix the issues created when state lawmakers passed the 2024 budget.
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Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) came to Prince William County, where farms are moving indoors.
Youngkin, joined by the Prince William Board of County Supervisors members, held a bill signing in Prince William County at Beanstalk, an indoor vertical farming company located on Groveton Road near Manassas.
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On June 4, 2024, a Prince William County Grand Jury indicted 47-year-old Manassas Park Resident Jose Rafael Lizama on a felony Involuntary Manslaughter and misdemeanor DUI stemming from a December 2, 2023 crash where Lizama is accused of striking and killing pedestrian Justin Burns, 39, of Blackstone.
A nearby homeowner’s surveillance camera caught the crash on video that shows a white van, allegedly driven by Lizama, strike Burns, who was crossing on foot the 8900 block of Center Street in downtown Manassas, near the Old Town Sports Pub, just before 11 p.m. in an unlit area away outside a crosswalk.
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Virginia Democrats opened their new joint campaign office on May 28, 2024, at the Elwye Center, 17932 Richmond Highway in Dumfries. The event aimed to galvanize support for the Biden/Harris presidential ticket and Senator Tim Kaine’s reelection bid. It’s the latest in a series of Biden campaign offices that have opened in Virignia, where polls show the president is losing ground to Republican challenger Donald Trump in the upcoming 2024 General Election.
Student drummers lined a walkway into the building and played as prominent Democrats from local and state-level offices walked inside. The drummers later joined elected officials and campaign staffers inside.
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