StateJournal reports from West Virginia Governor Earl Ray Tomblin has extended the executive order that suspends the consumer sales service tax and use tax on manufactured and modular housing purchases, as well as on certain building materials, in the wake of the flooding and wind damage that hit the state in March. Taxpayers in 11 counties can take advantage of the extension through July 14. “Families and businesses continue to restore what Mother Nature quickly and swiftly destroyed,” Tomblin said. “With many West Virginians just now receiving insurance claim assistance, reconstruction efforts can be substantially furthered by continuing to waive the sales tax on certain building materials and supplies needed to restore life to normalcy.”

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