The General Assembly adopted a new state budget to end its 60-day session on time on Saturday, but the war of words is just beginning over a sales tax on digital services that Gov. Glenn Youngkin originally proposed and Democrats then broadened to businesses’ purchases of software service, without backing any offsetting tax cuts.
The battleground now moves to April 17, when the Democratic-controlled assembly will return to Richmond to consider the vetoes and amendments that the Republican governor is likely to rain down on a legislature that rejected both the “package deal” he proposed on taxes and the $2 billion sports and entertainment district in Alexandria that he had made his top priority.
Read the full story in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
