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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>79126</law_id><section_number>58.1-3516.1</section_number><catch_line>Payment of taxes prorated under &#xA7; 58.1-3516</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="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="5">Tax Day/Filing of Returns</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Notwithstanding the contrary language of &#xA7;&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Tax day January 1" href="/58.1-3515/">58.1-3515</a>, <a class="law" title="Taxpayers to file returns" href="/58.1-3518/">58.1-3518</a>, <a class="law" title="When treasurer to receive taxes and levies without penalty; how payments credited" href="/58.1-3913/">58.1-3913</a>, <a class="law" title="Penalty for failure to pay taxes by December 5" href="/58.1-3915/">58.1-3915</a>, and <a class="law" title="Counties, cities, and towns may provide dates for filing returns and set penalties, interest, etc" href="/58.1-3916/">58.1-3916</a>, or subdivision B of &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Proration of personal property tax" href="/58.1-3516/">58.1-3516</a>, relating to the tax day, or tax filing or payment dates, or dates on which <span class="dictionary">penalty</span> and interest are to be charged or added to delinquent tax returns or payments, or any other general provisions of <span class="dictionary">law</span> relating to such dates, the City of Winchester is authorized to provide, by <span class="dictionary">ordinance</span>, in combination with the adoption of proration of personal property taxes under &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Proration of personal property tax" href="/58.1-3516/">58.1-3516</a>, the following:</p></section>
						<section id="1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> The payment of the personal property tax on any personal property subject to proration shall be due on the last day of the twelfth month after such personal property has acquired situs within the city; however, if the property loses situs in the City of Winchester, or if the <span class="dictionary">taxpayer</span> sells or otherwise transfers title to the property, the tax shall be due on the last day of the month following the month of the loss of situs or of the sale or other transfer of title of the property. <a id="paragraph-283391" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-3516.1/#1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="2"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> The penalties for failure to pay the tax on such personal property shall begin the day following the due date for the tax on the property.
			The provisions of Subtitle III (&#xA7; <a class="law" title="Real estate, mineral lands, tangible personal property and merchants' capital subject to local taxation only" href="/58.1-3000/">58.1-3000</a> et seq.) of Title 58.1 which are not in conflict herewith shall apply, with the respective differences having been considered, to the imposition and collection of personal property taxes by the City of Winchester, and the tax credit and exemption provisions of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Proration of personal property tax" href="/58.1-3516/">58.1-3516</a> for the payment of taxes to other <span class="dictionary">jurisdictions</span> shall specifically apply to any <span class="dictionary">ordinance</span> adopted under the authority of this section. <a id="paragraph-283392" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-3516.1/#2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1993, cc. 187, 324; 1995, cc. 131, 469.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
