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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>85912</law_id><section_number>58.1-2226</section_number><catch_line>Exemptions from tax</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>58.1-2228</reference><reference>58.1-2233</reference><reference>58.1-2259</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="II">Taxes Administered by Other Agencies</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="22">Virginia Fuels Tax Act</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="3">Motor Fuel Tax; Liability</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>No tax shall be levied or collected pursuant to this chapter on:</p></section>
						<section id="1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> <span class="dictionary">Motor fuel</span> sold and delivered to a <span class="dictionary">governmental entity</span> for the exclusive <span class="dictionary">use</span> by the <span class="dictionary">governmental entity</span>. This exemption shall not apply with respect to fuel sold or delivered to any <span class="dictionary">person</span> operating under <span class="dictionary">contract</span> with the <span class="dictionary">governmental entity</span>; <a id="paragraph-307723" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-2226/#1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="2"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> <span class="dictionary">Motor fuel</span> sold and delivered to a nonprofit charitable organization that is exempt from taxation under &#xA7; 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and which is organized and operated exclusively for the purpose of providing charitable, long-distance, advanced life-support, air transportation services using emergency medical services vehicles for low-income medical patients in the Commonwealth, for the exclusive <span class="dictionary">use</span> of such organization in the operation of an aircraft; <a id="paragraph-307724" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-2226/#2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="3"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> <span class="dictionary">Bonded <span class="dictionary">aviation jet fuel</span></span>; <a id="paragraph-307725" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-2226/#3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="4"><p><span class="prefix-number">4.</span> <span class="dictionary">Dyed diesel fuel</span>, except as provided in subdivision A 1 of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Backup tax; liability" href="/58.1-2225/">58.1-2225</a>; <a id="paragraph-307726" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-2226/#4"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="5"><p><span class="prefix-number">5.</span> <span class="dictionary">Motor fuel</span> removed, by <span class="dictionary">transport truck</span> or another means of transfer outside the <span class="dictionary">terminal transfer system</span>, from a terminal for <span class="dictionary">export</span>, if the <span class="dictionary">supplier</span> of the <span class="dictionary">motor fuel</span> collects tax on the fuel at the rate of the <span class="dictionary">motor fuel</span>&#x2019;s <span class="dictionary">destination state</span>; or <a id="paragraph-307727" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-2226/#5"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="6"><p><span class="prefix-number">6.</span> <span class="dictionary">Heating oil</span>, as defined in &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/58.1-2201/">58.1-2201</a>. <a id="paragraph-307728" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-2226/#6"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>2000, cc. 729, 758; 2015, cc. 502, 503.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
