We need you to raise your voice in support of the restaurants, hotels, shops, and entertainment that you love by helping us to advocate for Retail Relief 2020. Right now, to make our community safer, these retailers have agreed to close their businesses. We need to all work together to make sure they can reopen them when this crisis is over.
VRF proactively represents and supports the legislative interests of Virginia retailers on the local, state, and federal levels.
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Special Session 2020: Tracked Bills
As you are aware, the 2020 Special Session began Tuesday, August 18th, and so far, we have seen several pieces of legislation introduced that will have an impact on our members if passed. A full list of the bills is below.
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Recent News
- Special Session 2020: Tracked Bills
- REPORT: Special Session 2020
- WEBINAR: New Labor Laws (Part 1 & 2)
- Upcoming 2020 Special Session
- Virginia Institutes New Regional Sales and Use Tax in Central Virginia
- Virginia Launches COVIDWISE Exposure Notification App to Help Contain COVID-19
- Virginia Sales Tax Holiday
- ON-DEMAND WEBINAR: Virginia’s COVID-19 Emergency Regulations
- NOW IN EFFECT: Virginia's Emergency Temporary OSHA Standards
- The Rebuild VA Grant Fund
Virginia Retail by the Numbers
| 1,057,777 Jobs Supported by Retail | 87,997 Retail Establishments | $63.5 (b) Total GDP Impact |
767,243 Direct Retail Employment | $20,545 (m) Direct Labor Income | $30,927 (m) Direct Impact on GDP |
source: National Retail Federation
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Take Action and Make an Impact
CONTACT VIRGINIA GOVERNOR
Contact the Governor immediately and demand that action is taken NOW to help save Retail in Virginia.
We need relief from state tax payments for a minimum of 6 months, expand the VEC to align with the Federal Stimulus program relating to a new Employment Compensation stimulus, unemployment rates for business remain at the level they were prior to COVID-19, a delay in remitting sales tax payments to the limit of the law, pause on all the burdensome legislation that was passed in the 2020 Session.
CONTACT SENATORS
We need everyone to contact their senators now! Tell them to put aside their differences and pass a bill that defends the economic health of the retail workforce and provides the maximum amount of liquidity for retailers to remain viable until the end of the crisis.
