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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>56951</law_id><section_number>58.1-348</section_number><catch_line>Criminal prosecution for failure or refusal to file return of income or for making false statement therein; limitation</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>58.1-349</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>Notwithstanding any other provisions of this title and in addition to any other penalties provided by <span class="dictionary">law</span>, any <span class="dictionary">individual</span> or fiduciary required under this chapter to make a return of income, who willfully fails or refuses to make such return, at the time or times required by <span class="dictionary">law</span>, shall be guilty of a Class 1 <span class="dictionary">misdemeanor</span>, or who, with <span class="dictionary">intent</span> to defraud the Commonwealth, makes any false statement in any such return, shall be guilty of a Class 6 <span class="dictionary">felony</span>. A <span class="dictionary">prosecution</span> under this section shall be commenced within five years next after the commission of the <span class="dictionary">offense</span>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 58-151.074; 1971, Ex. Sess., c. 171; 1977, c. 246; 1984, c. 675; 2003, c. 180.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
