taxes – Gary McGath

Charlottesville can’t apply its business tax to writers

This entry was posted in Writing Writing as business and tagged taxes Virginia on June 13, 2022 by Gary McGath

The Virginia Supreme Court ruled that the city of Charlottesville, VA can’t collect its business license tax from freelance writers. Writer Corban Anderson, represented by the Institute for Justice, will get a refund of the taxes he had been assessed.

The city does not list freelance writing as having to pay the tax, but the city held that a “catchall provision” in the law let it tax writers.
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Taxing freelance writers

This entry was posted in Commentary Writing Writing as business and tagged California taxes Virginia writing on September 8, 2021 by Gary McGath

Charlottesville, Virginia tried to impose a business license tax on freelance writers. At the same time, magazines and newspapers were exempt from the tax. In January 2021, the 16th Judicial Court of Virginia declared this treatment a violation of the 14th Amendment, which guarantees equal protection under the law.
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