The author of several works of legal fiction isn’t subject to Charlottesville’s business license tax because he doesn’t provide a service under the city’s ordinance, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled.
A state trial court properly ordered the city to refund author and former attorney Corban Addison Klug and his business, Regulus Books LLC, $2,461 in business, professional, and occupation license taxes, the high court ruled Thursday.
“Writing a literary work then licensing that work to a publisher as Klug does through Regulus is not performing a service,” Senior Justice LeRoy F. Millette Jr. wrote for the court. ...
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