Jan 23, 2025
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) -- There is a renewed debate in Virginia over whether Confederate organizations like the United Daughters of the Confederacy should be exempt from paying certain property and real estate taxes. “No organization that perpetuates falsehoods about the Civil War or who has tied to groups like the KKK deserves tax breaks,” said Delegate Alex Askew (D-Virginia Beach). Currently, groups like the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the Stonewall Jackson Memorial and others aren’t required to pay those taxes, something Askew is trying to change. “Why as a commonwealth are we supporting groups that rewrite history to obscure the true cause of the Civil War? A war to uphold the institution of slavery. America’s original sin,” Askew said. Askew’s bill would require Confederate groups to start paying property and real estate taxes, something the United Daughters of the Confederacy said in a statement is “viewpoint discrimination” and is “unfair and discriminatory to the descendants of soldiers who responded to the legislature’s call in 1861 to defined their state.” Governor Glenn Youngkin (R) vetoed similar bills last year. This year’s version will be up for final passage in the House of Delegates on Friday.
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