ROCKINGHAM — Eleven months after the previous iteration of the Richmond County Board of Commissioners made a sweeping decision in April 2020 to switch to an ad valorem sales tax distribution method, resulting in huge chunks of sales tax revenue being taken from all six municipalities, the new-look board granted the municipalities a chance to make their case for a reversing that decision — and at least one commissioner expressed agreement with the core elements of their conclusions.

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ROCKINGHAM — Richmond County’s six municipalities have gotten together to again call on the county to reverse their April 2020 decision to switch to an ad valorem sales tax distribution method, this time armed with eight months of additional data showing that the county’s projected gains from this move were far less than the actual numbers.

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