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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>86634</law_id><section_number>58.1-1402</section_number><catch_line>Tax levied</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>58.1-1403</reference><reference>58.1-1404</reference><reference>58.1-1407</reference><reference>58.1-1408</reference><reference>58.1-604.1</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="14">Virginia Watercraft Sales and Use Tax</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>There is hereby levied and imposed, in addition to all other taxes and fees of every kind now imposed by <span class="dictionary">law</span>, a tax upon the sale of every <span class="dictionary">watercraft</span> sold in this Commonwealth, upon the use in this Commonwealth of any <span class="dictionary">watercraft</span> and upon the <span class="dictionary">gross receipts</span> from the lease, charter or other use of any <span class="dictionary">watercraft</span> by a registered <span class="dictionary">dealer</span> in this Commonwealth. The amount of the tax to be collected shall be determined by applying the following rate against the <span class="dictionary">sale price</span>, market value or <span class="dictionary">gross receipts</span>:</p></section>
						<section id="1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> Two percent of the <span class="dictionary">sale price</span> of each <span class="dictionary">watercraft</span> sold in the Commonwealth. <a id="paragraph-310274" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-1402/#1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="2"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> Two percent of the <span class="dictionary">sale price</span> of each <span class="dictionary">watercraft</span> not sold in the Commonwealth but required to be titled in the Commonwealth. However, if the <span class="dictionary">watercraft</span> is first required to be titled in the Commonwealth six months or more after its acquisition, the tax shall be two percent of the market value of such <span class="dictionary">watercraft</span> at the time it is titled. <a id="paragraph-310275" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-1402/#2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="3"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> Two percent of the <span class="dictionary">gross receipts</span> from the lease, charter or other use of any <span class="dictionary">watercraft</span> by a registered <span class="dictionary">dealer</span>.
			The maximum tax levied under subdivisions 1 and 2 of this section shall be $2,000. A transaction taxed under subdivision 1 shall not be taxed under subdivision 2 or 3, nor shall the same transaction be taxed more than once under either subdivision 1, 2 or 3. Use of any <span class="dictionary">watercraft</span> by a registered <span class="dictionary">dealer</span> resulting in taxation under subdivision 3 shall not exempt any subsequent sale or use of such <span class="dictionary">watercraft</span> from being taxed under subdivision 1 or 2 if applicable. <a id="paragraph-310276" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-1402/#3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7;&#xA7; 58-685.41, 58-685.44; 1981, c. 405; 1984, c. 675; 1987, c. 516; 1990, c. 666.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
