Kershner moves to lower Car Taxes to $3.09
Supervisor Caleb A. Kershner (R– Catoctin District) offered a motion to provide additional vehicle tax relief to Loudoun residents during Loudoun County’s Budget Wrap-Up session March 14. Kershner’s motion to lower the Personal Property Tax Rate on Vehicles to $3.09 per $100 of assessed value for Tax Year 2026 was adopted by an 8-0-1 vote with Supervisor Briskman absent.
“In six budget cycles, I have fought to reduce taxes for the hard-working citizens of Loudoun County,” said Kershner. “I am proud and grateful that my colleagues supported this motion allowing us to further reduce the overall car tax to $3.09 from $4.15. The motion reduction along with reduction in the prosed base budget will provide Loudoun County residents a total of $24,645,000 in total car tax relief. Without question, the Board’s ability to reduce the car tax to this level is due to the generous revenue Loudoun County receives from our data center industry. Loudoun County now has the honor of having the lowest car tax in the region.”
“Even though the Board has been reducing the tax rate each year, Loudoun County residents have not seen tax relief on their homes (real property tax) because of assessment increases year-over-year. The tax rate has never been set low enough to provide real tax relief to homeowners who fund 53% of county revenue. For this year, the FY2026 Budget car tax reduction was the best way to provide tax relief to our residents.”
[ii] County Budget Questions Packet 1 p. 17-18 – Percentage of Tax Increases from FY2021-FY2025. Only Decrease in FY 2026 of 0.9% (average tax decrease of $58)
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There are over 200 existing data centers owned by trillion dollar international companies that are destroying the quality of life for folks in Eastern Loudoun – between the noise, the eyesore and multiple new 500kV transmission lines and substations. Those data center energy demands are also the cause of TWO new HVAC transmission even bigger than what is being proposed in Eastern Loudoun. The proposed 500kV and a 765kV transmission line to gut rural private property owners of approximately 365 acres through 15miles across Western Loudoun. An additional 117 data centers in the pipeline with a pending BOS proposal that allegedly helps to reign in the overdevelopment of the data centers but “grandfathers” 40 of them and doesn’t actually restrict the development of the other 77. If “grandfathered” those 40 will increase the energy demand by @4GW – tens of billions of dollars in additional transmission on top of the multi-billions already proposed that we will be paying for through our electric bills and hosting on our property.
OOHhhh and we get an annual savings of $368 on car property taxes – cars which we have bought and paid for – but presumably need to “rent from Loudoun County” at a “reduced” yearly rate of $3.09 per $100 of assessed value.
Primary them all! Loudoun County needs a through cleaning out.