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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>77633</law_id><section_number>4.1-331</section_number><catch_line>Failure to pay tax or to deliver, keep and preserve records and accounts, or to allow examination and inspection; penalty</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="4.1">Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Control</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="I">Alcoholic Beverage Control Act</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="3">Prohibited Practices; Penalties; Procedural Matters</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="2">Prohibited Practices by Licensees</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>No <span class="dictionary">licensee</span> shall fail or refuse to (i) pay any tax provided for in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Tax on wine and other alcoholic beverages; exceptions" href="/4.1-234/">4.1-234</a> or &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Excise tax on beer and wine coolers; payment of tax; exceptions" href="/4.1-236/">4.1-236</a>; (ii) deliver, keep and preserve such records, invoices and accounts as are required by &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Records of licensees; inspection of records and places of business" href="/4.1-204/">4.1-204</a> or <span class="dictionary">Board</span> regulation; or (iii) allow such records, invoices and accounts or his place of business to be examined and inspected in accordance with &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Records of licensees; inspection of records and places of business" href="/4.1-204/">4.1-204</a>.
		Any person convicted of a violation of this section shall be guilty of a Class 1 <span class="dictionary">misdemeanor</span>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 4-65; 1988, c. 261, &#xA7; 4-136; 1993, c. 866.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
