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Pittsylvania County has the infrastructure, resources and people in place to help you increase the size and profitability of your business.

Located in the South-Central Piedmont region of Virginia with excellent access to highway and rail transportation centers, Pittsylvania Country is well-positioned to serve the needs of manufacturing and other industry – just a day’s shipping distance from two-thirds of the U.S. population.

And speaking of people, our workforce is energetic, well-trained and plentiful. (Click here for Workforce Data.) Take a closer look at our vital signs:

Major Industrial and Service Employers
 Unique Industries  312 employees
 Intertape Polymer Group  300 employees
 AC Furniture  275 employees
 Yorktowne Industries  265 employees
 Columbia Forest Products  248 employees
 Times Fiber Communications  220 employees
 Techma, U.S.A.  204 employees
 eToys, Direct  200 (lo) - 1500 (hi) employees
 Ennis  260 employees
 RACO  150 employees
 Owens-Illinois  150 employees
 DanChem Technologies  130 employees
 Riverview Plumbing & Heating  126 employees
 First Piedmont Corporation  115 employees

Transportation Highways

U.S. #29 (north-south) U.S. #58 (east-west)
U.S. #360 (northeast-southwest)
Easy access to Interstate 40, 85, 95 and 64
I-785 will soon connect the county to 1-85 at its technology hub

Motor Carriers
25 trucking firms serve the area

Commercial Air Service
Lynchburg Regional Airport (Lynchburg, VA)…………………...40 miles
Piedmont Triad International Airport (Greensboro, NC)………50 miles
Danville Regional Airport (General Aviation)

Commercial Rail Service
Amtrak

Freight Rail Service
Norfolk Southern Corporation

Port

Richmond 140 miles
Norfolk 190 miles

 

Overnight Package Delivery
FedEx, UPS, DHL, and USPS Mail Express

Taxes

  • Virginia’s tax rates are historically low. Localities collect a 1% sales tax. They do not tax other items taxed at the State level. 
  • Counties and cities in Virginia are separate tax-paying entities. Your company would, therefore, pay taxes to either a county or to a city.
  • If a company is located in a town, it pays town and county taxes, except for utility taxes which are paid only to the town and the license tax which is paid only to the town unless town law permits the additional collection of a county tax.
  • Manufacturers pay real estate, machinery and tools, truck and automobile, utility and sales taxes (click here for our Financial Incentives).
  • Non-manufacturers pay real estate, tangible property, truck and automobile, utility, merchant’s capital and sales taxes.

Local Tax Rates 2007

Real Estate  

Nominal Tax rate/$100

$0.50
Machinery & Tools: Original Cost  

Value for Tax Purposes

$4.50

Assessment Ratio

10%

Effective Tax Rate/$100

$0.45
Automobiles and Trucks  

Nominal Tax rate/$100

$7.75
Computed at 85% of retail value  

Assessment Ratio

30%

Effective Tax Rate/$100

$2.33

 

 

 

 

 
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