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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>77678</law_id><section_number>58.1-12</section_number><catch_line>Payment of tax by bad check</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>12.1-17</reference><reference>2.2-614.1</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="58.1">Taxation</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="0">General Provisions of Title 58.1</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="1">In General</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> If any check tendered for any tax due under this title is not paid by the bank on which it is drawn, the <span class="dictionary">taxpayer</span> for whom such check was tendered shall remain liable for the payment of the tax the same as if such check had not been tendered. <a id="paragraph-278629" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-12/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> If such person fails to pay the amount shown on the face of the check within five days after notice of such nonpayment has been mailed to the <span class="dictionary">taxpayer</span> by the tax assessing official, a <span class="dictionary">penalty</span> of twenty-five dollars shall be added to the tax due. Such <span class="dictionary">penalty</span> shall be in addition to any and all other penalties provided by <span class="dictionary">law</span>. <a id="paragraph-278630" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-12/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7;&#xA7; 58-26.1, 58-151.13:1, 58-441.35; 1966, c. 151; 1972, c. 351; 1979, c. 423; 1984, c. 675; 1992, c. 678.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
