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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>59234</law_id><section_number>58.1-314</section_number><catch_line>Lien of jeopardy assessment; notice of lien</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="3">Income Tax</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="1">General Provisions</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Upon the completion of all acts necessary to effect a jeopardy assessment under &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Immediate assessment where collection jeopardized by delay; notice of assessment; termination of taxable period; memorandum of lien" href="/58.1-313/">58.1-313</a> and upon the failure of the <span class="dictionary">taxpayer</span> to make payment in full upon demand of all taxes, penalties and interest immediately due thereunder or post a <span class="dictionary">bond</span> in lieu thereof when applicable, such assessment shall be a <span class="dictionary">lien</span> upon and bind the real and personal property of the delinquent <span class="dictionary">taxpayer</span> against whom it may be issued from the time the <span class="dictionary">taxpayer</span> fails to make full payment thereunder, except as against a bona fide purchaser for a valuable consideration. A notice of such <span class="dictionary">lien</span>, drawn by the <span class="dictionary">Tax Commissioner</span>, shall be sent to the clerk of the <span class="dictionary">circuit</span> <span class="dictionary">court</span> in all <span class="dictionary">jurisdictions</span> wherein the <span class="dictionary">taxpayer</span> is known or believed to own any <span class="dictionary">estate</span>. The clerk to whom any such notice of <span class="dictionary">lien</span> is so sent shall record it, as a <span class="dictionary">judgment</span> is required by <span class="dictionary">law</span> to be recorded, and shall index the same in the name of the Commonwealth as well as of the delinquent <span class="dictionary">taxpayer</span>. Such recordation shall thereupon be constructive notice of the <span class="dictionary">lien</span> created by the assessment as to all <span class="dictionary">estate</span> of the delinquent <span class="dictionary">taxpayer</span> located in such <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7;&#xA7; 58-151.077, 58-151.0106; 1971, Ex. Sess., c. 171; 1977, c. 396; 1979, c. 639; 1984, c. 675.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
