Since the mid-1980s, Fairfax County Board of Supervisors have increased real estate taxes at a rate three times higher than the household income. This trend will continue this year.

Fairfax County is mulling the idea of implementing a meal tax in the face of a budget deficit for the next year that will be nearly $300 million.

One top official claims that even if a funding plan is implemented, it will not solve the county's financial problems. There is a gap of $292.7 millions between the expected revenues and expenditures, which must be closed in the next year.