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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>61798</law_id><section_number>58.1-207</section_number><catch_line>Collection and publication of property tax data</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="2">Department of Taxation</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> The <span class="dictionary">Tax Commissioner</span> annually shall make and <span class="dictionary">issue</span> comprehensive assessment sales ratio studies for each major class of real property in each county or city in the Commonwealth. In <span class="dictionary">order</span> to determine the degree of assessment uniformity in the assessment of major classes of property within each county or city, the <span class="dictionary">Tax Commissioner</span> shall compute measures of central tendency and dispersion in accordance with appropriate standard statistical techniques. <a id="paragraph-225664" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-207/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> The <span class="dictionary">Tax Commissioner</span> shall construct and maintain a system for the collection and analysis of real property tax <span class="dictionary">facts</span> so as to enable him to make intrajurisdictional comparisons as well as intercounty and intercity comparisons based on assessment sales ratio data. <a id="paragraph-225665" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-207/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> The <span class="dictionary">Tax Commissioner</span> shall publish annually the <span class="dictionary">findings</span> of the assessment sales ratio studies. <a id="paragraph-225666" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-207/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="D"><p><span class="prefix-number">D.</span> The appropriate county or city assessing officer shall post annually in his office the assessment sales ratio studies as published by the <span class="dictionary">Tax Commissioner</span>. <a id="paragraph-225667" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-207/#D"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 58-33.2; 1975, c. 617; 1984, c. 675.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
