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Real-estate lobbyists rank high
Report names them as among most influential
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Published: August 26, 2008
RALEIGH
A new report says that North Carolina lobbyists who represented real-estate agents in a fight against a land-transfer tax are among the most influential at the legislature.
The nonpartisan N.C. Center for Public Policy Research released its Top 50 list Monday. The list includes several real-estate lobbyists, including the second most influential, John McMillan. The top spot went to contract lobbyist Roger Bone, who works with several groups.
In 2007, the General Assembly gave counties the ability to put both real-estate-transfer tax or sales-tax increase proposals on ballots for voter approval. Counties now have the ability to get voter approval to raise the local sales tax by a quarter of a penny or the land-transfer tax to 0.6 percent from 0.2 percent of a home's sale price.
The real-estate lobbyists led an unsuccessful fight against the plan. Groups representing counties that supported the proposal also ranked high on the list.
Rankings are based on surveys from legislators, lobbyists and reporters.
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