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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>83478</law_id><section_number>58.1-347</section_number><catch_line>Penalty for failure to file income tax returns in time</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>58.1-344</reference><reference>58.1-351</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="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><p>All <span class="dictionary">individual</span> or fiduciary income tax returns required by <span class="dictionary">law</span> to be filed with the commissioner of the revenue shall be filed with the commissioner of the revenue within the time required by this chapter, unless the time for filing such returns is extended by the <span class="dictionary">Department</span>. Upon all returns on which tax is due, filed with or assessed by the commissioner of the revenue after the time herein prescribed for the filing of returns, the commissioner of the revenue shall assess a <span class="dictionary">penalty</span> equal to six percent of the amount of taxes assessable thereon if the failure is for not more than one month, with an additional six percent for each additional month or fraction thereof during which such failure to file continues, not exceeding thirty percent in the aggregate. Such <span class="dictionary">penalty</span> shall be collected in the same manner as is provided by <span class="dictionary">law</span> for the collection of other taxes.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 58-151.073; 1971, Ex. Sess., c. 171; 1974, c. 178; 1984, c. 675; 1989, cc. 629, 642; 1991, cc. 316, 331.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
