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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>75886</law_id><section_number>58.1-1113</section_number><catch_line>Penalty for failure to file returns of intangible personal property in time; delinquents; assessments on estimates</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="11">Intangible Personal Property Tax</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The commissioner of the revenue shall assess a <span class="dictionary">penalty</span> equal to ten percent of the amount of taxes assessable thereon upon any return filed with the commissioner of the revenue after the time prescribed for the filing of returns. In no case shall such <span class="dictionary">penalty</span> be less than ten dollars, and such <span class="dictionary">penalty</span> when so assessed shall become a part of the tax and shall be collected in the same manner as is provided by <span class="dictionary">law</span> for the collection of other taxes.
		At any time after the time required by <span class="dictionary">law</span> for filing such returns the commissioner of the revenue shall secure a return from every delinquent <span class="dictionary">taxpayer</span> within his <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> or, if any such <span class="dictionary">taxpayer</span> refuses to make a return or fails to make such return for fifteen days after the commissioner of the revenue calls upon him to do so, the commissioner of the revenue shall from the best information he can obtain make an estimate of the intangible personal property of such <span class="dictionary">taxpayer</span>.
		The commissioner of the revenue shall have authority to assess taxes, penalties and interest upon such estimate and such taxes, penalties and interest shall be collected in like manner as is provided by <span class="dictionary">law</span> for the collection of other state taxes.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 58-438; 1984, c. 675.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
