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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>65579</law_id><section_number>58.1-1816</section_number><catch_line>Conversion of trust taxes; penalty; limitation of prosecutions</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>58.1-1817.1</reference></referred_to_by><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 owning and operating a business, or a fiduciary operating or liquidating a business, who through two or more acts or omissions within a period of ninety days willfully fails to truthfully account for any state sales use or withholding tax totaling $1,000 or more collected from others with the <span class="dictionary">intent</span> not to pay over, shall, in addition to any other penalties provided by <span class="dictionary">law</span>, be guilty of a Class 6 <span class="dictionary">felony</span>. A <span class="dictionary">prosecution</span> under this section shall be commenced within five years next after the commission of the <span class="dictionary">offense</span>.</p></section></text><history>1992, c. 763.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
