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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>86473</law_id><section_number>58.1-3916.1</section_number><catch_line>Criminal penalties for failure to file returns; false statements</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="39">Enforcement, Collection, Refunds, Remedies and Review of Local Taxes</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="2">Collection by Treasurers, Etc</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Any <span class="dictionary">ordinance</span> ordained pursuant to this article requiring the filing of a return for tax purposes may prescribe criminal penalties for willful failure or refusal to file such return at the time or times required therein or for making false statements with <span class="dictionary">intent</span> to defraud in such returns. Such penalties shall not exceed those prescribed by general <span class="dictionary">law</span> for (i) a Class 3 <span class="dictionary">misdemeanor</span> if the amount of the tax lawfully assessed in connection with the return is $1,000 or less, or (ii) a Class 1 <span class="dictionary">misdemeanor</span> if the amount of the tax lawfully assessed in connection with the return is more than $1,000.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 58-847.1; 1984, c. 328; 1986, c. 351.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
