Commissioner of the Revenue
The county's chief assessing officer: the office that values personal property, handles business licenses, runs tax relief programs, and helps residents file their state income taxes.
Who holds it
Jenefer S. Hughes has served as Chesterfield County's Commissioner of the Revenue since 2017, when she was first elected. She is a Chartered Accountant with roughly three decades of corporate finance experience at major companies including Ernst & Young, Hewlett-Packard, and McKesson, where she was Director of Accounting overseeing a team that processed billions of dollars in transactions annually. Born in England, Hughes worked in Europe before relocating to the United States in 1997 and becoming a U.S. citizen in 2008; she moved to the Bon Air area of Chesterfield in 2009. Her credentials are listed as MBA, ACA, and MCR.
What this office does
The Commissioner of the Revenue is the county's chief assessing officer, responsible for fairly applying state and local tax codes to determine what taxpayers owe. The office administers local taxes (business and personal property), assists residents with state income tax filing, and oversees tax relief and exemption programs. It is required to protect taxpayer confidentiality.
Services residents use it for
- Business license applications and renewals
- Personal property tax assessment (vehicles, boats, mobile homes)
- Real estate tax relief and exemptions for qualified residents (elderly, disabled, and others)
- State income tax return filing assistance
- DMV Select services (by appointment)
- Tax appeals and relief applications
Contact
Term and next election
Virginia constitutional offices appear on the ballot as partisan races, but the county does not publish current officeholders’ party affiliations on its official pages, so we do not list one here.