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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>75158</law_id><section_number>58.1-342</section_number><catch_line>Special cases in which nonresident need not file Virginia return</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="4">Accounting, Returns, Procedures for Individuals</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> A nonresident of Virginia who had no actual place of abode in this Commonwealth at any time during the taxable year and commuted on a daily basis from his place of residence in another state to his place of employment in Virginia is hereby relieved of filing an income tax return with this Commonwealth for that taxable year provided: <a id="paragraph-269896" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-342/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A1" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> His only income from Virginia sources was from salaries and wages; <a id="paragraph-269897" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-342/#A1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A2" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> Such salaries and wages were subject to income taxation by the state of his residence under an income tax <span class="dictionary">law</span> substantially similar in principle to this chapter; <a id="paragraph-269898" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-342/#A2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A3" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> The <span class="dictionary">laws</span> of such other state contain a provision substantially similar in effect to that contained in &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Credits for taxes paid other states" href="/58.1-332/">58.1-332</a> and applicable to <span class="dictionary">residents</span> of Virginia; and <a id="paragraph-269899" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-342/#A3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="A4" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">4.</span> The <span class="dictionary">laws</span> of such other state accord like treatment to a <span class="dictionary">resident</span> of this Commonwealth who commuted on a daily basis from his place of residence in Virginia to his place of employment in such other state. <a id="paragraph-269900" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-342/#A4"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> The <span class="dictionary">Department</span> may enter into reciprocal agreements with other states to exempt nonresidents from the Virginia income tax if such other states similarly exempt Virginia <span class="dictionary">residents</span>. Under such reciprocal agreements nonresidents are not required to pay tax or file a return with, nor be subject to withholding by, the reciprocating state on <span class="dictionary">compensation</span> paid in that state or on income distributed by a <span class="dictionary">trust</span> domiciled in that state. <a id="paragraph-269901" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-342/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 58-151.063; 1971, Ex. Sess., c. 171; 1982, c. 528; 1984, c. 675; 1998, c. 352.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
