Town Hall will be closed Thursday Nov. 26th and Friday Nov. 27th for the Thanksgiving Holiday. All residential trash services will be picked up on normal schedule.
Notice is hereby given that the Town of Nutter Fort, a municipal corporation, will hold a public hearing before the final vote on a proposed ordinance, the principal object of which is to provide for the imposition of a consumer sales and service tax and a use tax for the Town of Nutter Fort. The title of such ordinance is AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF NUTTER FORT ENACTING, PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF WEST VIRGINIA CODE § 8-1-5A MUNICIPAL HOME RULE, AND THE TOWN OF NUTTER FORT’S APPROVED HOME RULE PLAN DATED JANUARY 15, 2020, TO PROVIDE FOR THE IMPOSITION OF A CONSUMER SALES AND SERVICE TAX AND A USE TAX.
For the privilege of selling tangible personal property or customer software and for the privilege of furnishing certain selected services, a vendor doing business in this Town shall collect from the purchaser the taxes imposed by this section and pay the amount of taxes collected to the Tax Commissioner at the same time and in the same manner as the consumers sales and service tax imposed by article fifteen, chapter eleven of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, are paid to the Tax Commissioner. The rate of tax shall be one percent of the sales price, as defined in section two, article fifteen-b, chapter eleven of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, of the tangible personal property, custom software or taxable service purchased or leased.
An excise tax is hereby levied and imposed on the use in this Town of tangible personal property, custom software and the results of taxable services, to be collected and paid to the tax commissioner as agent for the Town in the same manner that state use tax is collected under article fifteen-a and article fifteen-b, chapter eleven of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, and remitted to the tax commissioner. The rate of tax shall be one percent of the purchase price, as defined in section two of this Ordinance, of the tangible personal property, custom software or taxable service used within the Town.
The public hearing and final vote on adoption of said proposed ordinance shall be held on Zoom on Tuesday, December 8th at six thirty (6:30) PM. Interested parties may appear and be heard at such time with respect to the passage of the proposed ordinance. Copies of the proposed ordinance will be available for public inspection at the Treasurer’s office, 1415 Buckhannon Pike, Nutter Fort, WV 26301 during the hours of 8AM to 4PM M-F.