Stafford County is the largest locality in Virginia without a BPOL tax. The Board of Supervisors just scheduled a public hearing to bring it back.

On this episode of the Potomac Local News Podcast, Uriah Kiser sits down with two people at the center of the fight: Commissioner of the Revenue Scott Mayausky, who would have to collect the tax, and former supervisor and former Del. Paul Milde, who helped repeal it nearly 20 years ago and now runs NoBPOLStafford.org.

Mayausky walks through the structure he presented to the board: a $2 million gross-receipts threshold modeled on Spotsylvania, a first-year flat 16-cent rate so Stafford does not have to classify thousands of businesses overnight, and why that threshold is not a write-off. Cross $2 million and you  ...