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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>58167</law_id><section_number>58.1-1709</section_number><catch_line>Penalty</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="17">Miscellaneous Taxes</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="2">Litter Tax</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> A <span class="dictionary">penalty</span> of $100 plus an amount equal to the taxes due, including all delinquent taxes due under this article, and the amount that the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> of Taxation has expended in collecting these delinquent taxes, shall be added to the tax levied in &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Tax levied" href="/58.1-1707/">58.1-1707</a> for failure to pay the tax by May 1 of each year. <a id="paragraph-213143" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-1709/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> In no event may the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> of Taxation impose any <span class="dictionary">penalty</span> or interest for failure to pay in full the tax imposed by this article without first notifying the <span class="dictionary">taxpayer</span> at least 30 days prior to the due date that a return is required to be filed. <a id="paragraph-213144" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-1709/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 10-201.1; 1976, c. 757; 1977, c. 616; 1981, c. 173; 1984, c. 675; 2006, c. 6; 2020, c. 468; 2023, cc. 251, 252.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
