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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>86455</law_id><section_number>58.1-3921</section_number><catch_line>Treasurer to make out lists of uncollectable taxes and delinquents</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>58.1-3129</reference><reference>58.1-3922</reference><reference>58.1-3924</reference><reference>58.1-3933</reference><reference>58.1-3994</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="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>The treasurer, after ascertaining which of the taxes and levies assessed at any time in his county or city have not been collected, shall, within 60 days of the end of the fiscal year, make out lists as follows:</p></section>
						<section id="1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> A list of real estate on the commissioner&#x2019;s land book improperly placed thereon or not ascertainable, with the amount of taxes charged thereon. <a id="paragraph-309664" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-3921/#1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="2"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> A list of other real estate which is delinquent for the nonpayment of the taxes thereon. This list shall not include any taxes listed under subdivision 4 or 5. <a id="paragraph-309665" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-3921/#2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="3"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> A list of such of the taxes assessed on tangible personal property, machinery and tools and merchants&#x2019; capital, and other subjects of local taxation, other than real estate, as he was unable to collect which are delinquent. This list shall not include any taxes listed under subdivision 4, 5, or 6. <a id="paragraph-309666" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-3921/#3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="4"><p><span class="prefix-number">4.</span> A list of the uncollected taxes amounting to less than $20 each for which no bills were sent under &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Local tax officials to mail certain tax documents to taxpayers; penalties; electronic transmission" href="/58.1-3912/">58.1-3912</a>. <a id="paragraph-309667" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-3921/#4"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="5"><p><span class="prefix-number">5.</span> A list of uncollected balances of previously billed taxes amounting to less than $20 each as to which the treasurer has determined that the costs of collecting such balances would exceed the amount recoverable, provided that the treasurer shall not include on such list any balance with respect to which he has reason to believe that the <span class="dictionary">taxpayer</span> has purposely paid less than the amount due and owing. <a id="paragraph-309668" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-3921/#5"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="6"><p><span class="prefix-number">6.</span> A list of uncollected balances of previously billed tangible personal property taxes on vehicles, trailers, semitrailers, watercraft, and manufactured homes that (i) were owned by <span class="dictionary">taxpayers</span>, now deceased, upon whose estates no qualification has been made, or (ii) were transferred to bona fide purchasers for value pursuant to &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Transfer by operation of law" href="/29.1-733.20/">29.1-733.20</a>, <a class="law" title="Transfer when certificate of title lost" href="/46.2-632/">46.2-632</a>, <a class="law" title="Transfer of title by operation of law" href="/46.2-633/">46.2-633</a>, or <a class="law" title="Transfer of title when no qualification on estate" href="/46.2-634/">46.2-634</a> without knowledge, on the part of the persons so transferring, of the unpaid taxes.
			Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, no tax or <span class="dictionary">levy</span> which has been discharged or otherwise rendered legally uncollectable as to a <span class="dictionary">taxpayer</span> liable upon it in a proceeding under the United States <span class="dictionary">Bankruptcy Code</span> (Title 11 of the United States Code) shall be considered delinquent with respect to that <span class="dictionary">taxpayer</span> on and after the date such obligation is discharged or otherwise rendered legally uncollectable, and the treasurer shall not include any such discharged or uncollectable obligation in any list required to be prepared pursuant to this section. Any such discharged or uncollectable obligation shall be stricken from the books of the treasurer as of the date the obligation is discharged or otherwise rendered uncollectable, and the treasurer thereafter shall have no further duty to collect such tax or <span class="dictionary">levy</span>.
			The governing body of any town may, by <span class="dictionary">ordinance</span>, adopt the procedures set forth in this section and &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Delinquent lists involving local taxes submitted to local governing bodies; publication of lists" href="/58.1-3924/">58.1-3924</a>. If such <span class="dictionary">ordinance</span> is adopted, the town treasurer shall submit such lists to the governing body as provided in &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Delinquent lists involving local taxes submitted to local governing bodies; publication of lists" href="/58.1-3924/">58.1-3924</a>. <a id="paragraph-309669" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-3921/#6"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 58-978; 1956, c. 69; 1971, Ex. Sess., c. 12; 1977, c. 507; 1979, c. 240; 1984, c. 675; 1995, c. 239; 1997, c. 496; 1999, c. 192; 2000, c. 453; 2007, c. 867; 2017, c. 440.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
