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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>54701</law_id><section_number>58.1-1738</section_number><catch_line>Administration of the 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="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="9">Virginia Motor Vehicle Rental and Peer-to-Peer Vehicle Sharing Tax</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> The tax on the rental of a motor vehicle pursuant to subsection A of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Levy" href="/58.1-1736/">58.1-1736</a> shall be paid by the person renting such motor vehicle, collected by the rentor of such motor vehicle, and remitted to the <span class="dictionary">Tax Commissioner</span> on or before the twentieth day of the month following the month in which the gross proceeds from such rental were due. All of the responsibilities imposed on dealers in Chapter 6 (&#xA7; <a class="law" title="Short title" href="/58.1-600/">58.1-600</a> et seq.) shall apply to rentors for purposes of this article, except the provision in subsection A of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Returns by dealers" href="/58.1-615/">58.1-615</a> requiring a sales or use tax return to be filed when the dealer is not liable to remit to the <span class="dictionary">Tax Commissioner</span> any tax for the period covered by the return. The tax on rental transactions in the Commonwealth shall apply regardless of the state for which a certificate of title is required. <a id="paragraph-200816" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-1738/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> The tax on the sharing of a motor vehicle pursuant to subsection D of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Levy" href="/58.1-1736/">58.1-1736</a> shall be paid by the shared vehicle driver. The tax shall be collectible from the peer-to-peer vehicle sharing platforms that have established sufficient contact with the Commonwealth by meeting at least one requirement in each of subdivisions C 1, 2, and 3 of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Tax collectible from marketplace facilitators; &quot;marketplace facilitator&quot; defined" href="/58.1-612.1/">58.1-612.1</a>, <span class="dictionary">mutatis mutandis</span>. Shared vehicle owners are not eligible to collect taxes on shared vehicle transactions where such taxes are collectible by a peer-to-peer vehicle sharing platform. The tax shall be remitted to the <span class="dictionary">Tax Commissioner</span> on or before the twentieth day of the month following the month in which the gross proceeds from such sharing were due. The tax on peer-to-peer vehicle sharing in the Commonwealth shall apply regardless of the state for which a certificate of title for a shared vehicle is required. <a id="paragraph-200817" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-1738/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> The provisions of Chapter 6 (&#xA7; <a class="law" title="Short title" href="/58.1-600/">58.1-600</a> et seq.) shall apply to this article, <span class="dictionary">mutatis mutandis</span>, except as herein provided. <a id="paragraph-200818" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-1738/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>2011, cc. 405, 639; 2019, c. 53; 2020, c. 1266.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
