<?xml version="1.0"?>
<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>59151</law_id><section_number>58.1-1002</section_number><catch_line>Exemptions</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="58.1">Taxation</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="I">Taxes Administered by the Department of Taxation</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="10">Cigarette Tax</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="1">Excise Tax</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The tax levied shall not apply to free distribution of sample <span class="dictionary">cigarettes</span> in packages containing five or fewer <span class="dictionary">cigarettes</span> or to any package of <span class="dictionary">cigarettes</span> customarily donated free of charge by <span class="dictionary">manufacturers</span> of <span class="dictionary">cigarettes</span> to employees in factories where <span class="dictionary">cigarettes</span> are manufactured in this Commonwealth, when such packages of <span class="dictionary">cigarettes</span> are not taxed by the federal government.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 58-757.1; 1960, c. 392, &#xA7; 1; 1980, c. 633; 1984, c. 675.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
