<?xml version="1.0"?>
<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>71879</law_id><section_number>58.1-1502</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>58.1-1503</reference><reference>58.1-1507</reference><reference>58.1-1510</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="15">Virginia Aircraft 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 <span class="dictionary">retail sale</span> of every <span class="dictionary">aircraft</span> sold in the Commonwealth and upon the use in the Commonwealth of any <span class="dictionary">aircraft</span> required to be licensed by the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> of Aviation pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Registration of aircraft" href="/5.1-5/">5.1-5</a>. The amount of the tax to be collected shall be determined by the application of the following rate against the <span class="dictionary">sale price</span> 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">aircraft</span> sold in the Commonwealth. <a id="paragraph-258982" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-1502/#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">aircraft</span> not sold in the Commonwealth but required to be licensed for use in the Commonwealth. However, if the <span class="dictionary">aircraft</span> is licensed 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">aircraft</span> at the time it is licensed or two percent of the purchase price thereof, whichever is lower. <a id="paragraph-258983" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-1502/#2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="3"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> Two percent of the monthly <span class="dictionary">gross receipts</span> from the lease, charter or other use of any <span class="dictionary">aircraft</span> licensed for commercial use pursuant to &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Registration of aircraft" href="/5.1-5/">5.1-5</a> B and held for sale by a <span class="dictionary">dealer</span> who has elected to be taxed under this paragraph as provided in &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Election by commercial dealer; revocation; eligibility" href="/58.1-1507/">58.1-1507</a>.
			A transaction taxed under subdivision 1 shall not be taxed under subdivision 2, nor shall the same transaction be taxed more than once under either subdivision.
			An <span class="dictionary">aircraft</span> subject to the tax under subdivision 3 shall be subject to the tax under subdivision 1 or 2 immediately upon the <span class="dictionary">revocation</span> of the commercial use license for such <span class="dictionary">aircraft</span>. <a id="paragraph-258984" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-1502/#3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7;&#xA7; 58-685.29, 58-685.30, 58-685.32; 1974, c. 431; 1975, c. 424; 1977, c. 396; 1980, cc. 109, 367; 1984, cc. 370, 675.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
