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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>69402</law_id><section_number>58.1-3201</section_number><catch_line>What real estate to be taxed; amount of assessment; public service corporation property</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>58.1-2655</reference><reference>58.1-3259</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="III">Local Taxes</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="32">Real Property Tax</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="1">Taxable Real Estate</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>All real estate, except that exempted by <span class="dictionary">law</span>, shall be subject to such annual taxation as may be prescribed by <span class="dictionary">law</span>.
		All general reassessments or annual assessments in those localities which have annual assessments of real estate, except as otherwise provided in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Assessed valuation" href="/58.1-2604/">58.1-2604</a>, shall be made at 100 percent fair market value and, except as provided in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="State taxation of railroads, telecommunications companies" href="/58.1-2608/">58.1-2608</a>, the State Corporation Commission and the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> of Taxation shall certify public service corporation property to such county or city, with the exception of the nonoperating (noncarrier) property of railroads, on the basis of the assessment ratio as most recently determined and published by the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> of Taxation. The <span class="dictionary">Department</span> of Taxation shall, ten days after determining the assessment ratio, notify the locality of that determination and the basis on which the determination was made. Nonoperating (noncarrier) property of railroads shall be valued for assessment by the city or county in which it is located uniformly with similarly situated real estate in the same <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> upon the best and most reliable information that can be procured. The <span class="dictionary">Tax Commissioner</span> shall determine which property is part of the operating unit of the railroads and which is nonoperating (noncarrier) property for purposes of the report described in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Annual report of railroads and freight car companies" href="/58.1-2653/">58.1-2653</a>. Such determination shall be made in accordance with the meaning of such terms in the Interstate Commerce Commission&#x2019;s Uniform System of Accounts. The inclusion, or failure to include, property in such report described in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Annual report of railroads and freight car companies" href="/58.1-2653/">58.1-2653</a> may be reviewed and redetermined by the <span class="dictionary">Tax Commissioner</span> at the request of any railroad, county, city, town or magisterial district.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 58-760; 1982, c. 619; 1983, cc. 556, 570; 1984, c. 675; 1985, c. 30.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
