Cost Recovery Surcharge & Va Personal Property Tax Recovery for IP Transit

Mon Jan 6 15:53:30 UTC 2020

On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 10:30 AM William Herrin <bill at herrin.us> wrote:

> If it's not written in to your contract, it's a breach of contract. Either way it's a deceitfully imposed surcharge, not a state tax. Virginia does not tax the sale of services like transit and colo. More, the only personal property tax I've heard of in Virginia is on motor vehicles.
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also, houses and ( I think ) boats. (personal property tax)

I could imagine this is: "Hey, have our customers pay our
realty/property taxes for us!" plan... or that perhaps they are
'leasing you ground space" and passing on the %-age of their total
space's tax footprint to you.

not saying either of those sounds terrific though :)