Senate budget proposal keeps data center sales tax exemption, adds new tax for industry

Sen. Lucas rallies support in Chesterfield for data center crackdown

The $1.7 billion fee Senate Finance Committee chair Louise Lucas, D-Portsmouth, proposed as a way around the objections to her proposal to do away with data centers’ sales tax exemption doesn’t mean the end of that tax break isn’t still possible, Lucas said.

Senate budget proposal keeps data center sales tax exemption, adds new tax for industry

There's a compromise on the table for the Virginia budget. The new Senate proposal keeps the sales tax exemption for data centers but imposes fees based on their diesel generators. The measure could raise an estimated $1.8 billion, according to state Sen. Louise Lucas.