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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>76244</law_id><section_number>58.1-1815</section_number><catch_line>Willful failure to collect and account for 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="18">Enforcement, Collection, Refund, Remedies and Review of State Taxes</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="1">Collection of State Taxes</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Any corporate or partnership officer as defined in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Liability of corporate officer or employee, or member, manager or employee of partnership or limited liability company, for failure to pay tax, etc" href="/58.1-1813/">58.1-1813</a>, or any other person required to collect, account for and pay over any sales, use or withholding tax, who willfully fails to collect or truthfully account for and pay over such tax, and any such officer or person who willfully evades or attempts to evade any such tax or the payment thereof, shall, in addition to any other penalties provided by <span class="dictionary">law</span>, be guilty of a Class 1 <span class="dictionary">misdemeanor</span>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 58-44.1; 1972, c. 363; 1984, c. 675.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
