Gov. Abigail Spanberger met General Assembly budget negotiators for breakfast on Friday, but showed little appetite for the economic risks of repealing Virginia’s sales tax exemption on equipment essential to the state’s rapidly expanding data center industry.
Spanberger, in her first legislative session since becoming governor on Jan. 17, didn’t directly address the Senate’s proposal to ditch the data center tax break in the letter that she provided budget conferees after the meeting, but she hinted at her concerns about the Virginia economy even before a new federal report estimated that the U.S. economy lost 92,000 jobs last month.
Read the full story in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
