Delegates David Kelly, R-Tyler, and Trenton Barnhart, R-Pleasants, were right to loudly express their concern with the enshrinement of a tax calculation process that has proven so flawed it resulted in a $30 million “clerical error” that affected theirs and six other natural gas producing counties. “The story was ‘whatever you do, don’t say it […]
CHARLESTON – A delegate from a county hit hardest by a mistake last year by the West Virginia Tax Division accuses state tax officials of “negligence” during debate on a bill to remove a deadline that would keep a controversial natural gas property tax valuation formula in place. The House passed House Bill 4850 in […]
CHARLESTON A delegate from a county hit hardest by a mistake last year by the West Virginia Tax Division accused state tax officials of “negligence” dur
The West Virginia House of Delegates Finance Committee advanced House Bill 4850, which would remove a sunset provision from gas and oil personal property tax. The bill, House Bill 4850, is backed by the Gas and Oil Association of West Virginia, but the methodology it would extend has drawn criticism, including from Wetzel County Assessor Scott Lemley.
CHARLESTON The West Virginia House of Delegates may have postponed some of the plans included in more than $720 million worth of bills in this week’s spec