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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>71390</law_id><section_number>58.1-1616</section_number><catch_line>Absconding taxpayer</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="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="16">Forest Products Tax</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>If the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> finds that a person liable for tax under any provision of this chapter designs quickly to depart from the Commonwealth or to remove his property therefrom, or to conceal himself or his property therein, or to do any other act tending to prejudice or to render wholly or partly ineffectual proceedings to collect such tax unless such proceeding be brought without delay, the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> shall cause notice of such <span class="dictionary">finding</span> to be given such person together with a demand for an immediate return and immediate payment of such tax. Thereupon such tax shall become immediately due and payable. If such person is not in <span class="dictionary">default</span> of making such return or paying any tax prescribed by this chapter, and furnishes <span class="dictionary">evidence</span> satisfactory to the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> in accordance with regulations which shall be prescribed by the <span class="dictionary">Department</span>, that he will duly return and pay the tax to which the <span class="dictionary">Department</span>&#x2019;s <span class="dictionary">findings</span> relate, then such tax shall not be payable prior to the time otherwise fixed for payment.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 58-838.18; 1984, c. 675.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
