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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>62634</law_id><section_number>58.1-1116</section_number><catch_line>Failure to pay tax when due; civil penalties</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>58.1-1110</reference></referred_to_by><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>If any tax or part thereof is not paid in full when due, there shall be added to the amount unpaid a <span class="dictionary">penalty</span> of five percent of the amount thereof. The entire tax or any unpaid balance thereof, together with <span class="dictionary">penalty</span>, shall immediately become collectible. Interest upon such unpaid balance and the <span class="dictionary">penalty</span> provided by this section shall be added at a rate determined in accordance with &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Rate of interest" href="/58.1-15/">58.1-15</a>, from one month after the tax was originally due until paid. In the case of an additional tax assessed by the commissioner of the revenue, if the return was made in good faith and the understatement of the amount in the return was not due to any fault of the <span class="dictionary">taxpayer</span>, there shall be no <span class="dictionary">penalty</span> on the additional tax because of such understatement, but interest shall be added to the amount of the deficiency at a rate determined in accordance with &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Rate of interest" href="/58.1-15/">58.1-15</a>, from the time the said return was required by <span class="dictionary">law</span> to be filed until paid.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 58-441; 1960, c. 508; 1977, c. 396; 1984, c. 675.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
