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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>79562</law_id><section_number>58.1-16</section_number><catch_line>Overcollection of tax</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="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><p>Any person responsible for collecting any tax administered by the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> or the Division of Motor Vehicles who overcollects such tax and fails to account for and pay such overcollection to the appropriate state agency by the time his regular monthly or quarterly return is due shall be liable for the amount of such overcollection, and in addition a <span class="dictionary">penalty</span> of twenty-five percent of such overcollection. The Commissioner administering such tax may <span class="dictionary">waive</span> such <span class="dictionary">penalty</span> for good cause.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 58-44.2; 1979, c. 133; 1984, c. 675.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
