Andreas D. Addison is calling on City Hall to refund all of the money in taxes, penalties, and fees that restaurants and other businesses have been forced to pay because of the city’s “bad customer service.”
Richmond continues to attract new business and investment, create jobs, and provide an invigorating economic climate for expansion but once businesses decide to invest in Richmond, we need to treat them better.
Stoney has spent much of his tenure chasing brass rings such as the Navy Hill redevelopment project and a casino in South Richmond, apparently forgetting his cornerstone plan to root out inefficiency and dysfunction in city government. That neglect, for these restaurateurs, is hard to swallow.
A state senator from Virginia Beach has introduced a bill to prevent the kind of surprise tax penalties that cost a Richmond restaurant tens of thousands of dollars in late