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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>80254</law_id><section_number>58.1-3500</section_number><catch_line>Defined and segregated for local taxation</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>58.1-3008</reference><reference>58.1-3019</reference><reference>58.1-3523</reference><reference>59.1-284.41</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="35">Tangible Personal Property, Machinery and Tools and Merchants' Capital</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="1">Tangible Personal Property Tax</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Tangible personal property shall consist of all personal property not otherwise classified by (i) &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Intangible personal property; segregated for state taxation" href="/58.1-1100/">58.1-1100</a> as intangible personal property, (ii) &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Definition of merchants' capital" href="/58.1-3510/">58.1-3510</a> as merchants&#x2019; capital, or (iii) &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Short-term rental property; short-term rental businesses" href="/58.1-3510.4/">58.1-3510.4</a> as short-term rental property. &#x201C;Tangible personal property&#x201D; does not include fixtures, as defined in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Assessment of real property; data centers" href="/58.1-3295.3/">58.1-3295.3</a>, if such fixtures are taxed in accordance with &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Assessment of real property; data centers" href="/58.1-3295.3/">58.1-3295.3</a>. Such tangible personal property is hereby segregated for and made subject to local taxation only pursuant to Article X, &#xA7;&#xA0;4 of the Constitution of Virginia.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7;&#xA7; 58-829, 58-830; 1960, c. 418; 1970, c. 325; 1974, c. 445; 1975, cc. 47, 541; 1978, cc. 178, 656, 843; 1979, c. 576; 1980, c. 412; 1982, c. 633; 1984, cc. 675, 689; 2010, cc. 255, 295; 2022, cc. 671, 672.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
