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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>76338</law_id><section_number>58.1-2504</section_number><catch_line>Companies commencing business</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="II">Taxes Administered by Other Agencies</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="25">License Tax on Certain Insurance Companies</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="1">Levy</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> The license <span class="dictionary">tax</span> on a <span class="dictionary">company</span> commencing business in the Commonwealth shall be paid to the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> before the license is issued. If a payment is made in an amount subsequently found to be in error, the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> shall, if an additional amount is due, notify the <span class="dictionary">taxpayer</span> of the additional amount due and the <span class="dictionary">company</span> shall pay such amount within 30 days of the date of the notice, and, if an overpayment is made, <span class="dictionary">issue</span> a refund as provided for in &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Amount of license tax for company commencing business" href="/58.1-2505/">58.1-2505</a>. <a id="paragraph-274038" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-2504/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> No license to transact the business of insurance shall be issued by the <span class="dictionary">Commission</span> for less than a year except to a <span class="dictionary">company</span> when it first commences business in the Commonwealth, in which case the initial license shall be issued for that part of the year from the date of the issuance of the license to June 30 following. <a id="paragraph-274039" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-2504/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7;&#xA7; 58-487, 58-489; 1952, c. 190; 1968, c. 13; 1978, c. 4; 1984, c. 675; 2011, c. 850; 2013, cc. 29, 163.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
