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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>77997</law_id><section_number>58.1-3957</section_number><catch_line>Payments to attorneys or others for collection</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="3">Collection by Distress, Suit, Lien, Etc</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> Whenever the services of any attorney employed to collect taxes which are a <span class="dictionary">lien</span> on real estate result in the collection of any such tax, such attorney may be compensated for his services whether or not any suit is instituted for the collection of the tax or the sale of the real estate. <a id="paragraph-279669" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-3957/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> No payment or compensation on any <span class="dictionary">taxpayer</span> account shall be made to any attorney, collection agency, or other person employed to collect delinquent taxes on amounts received from the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> of Taxation and collected through the Setoff Debt Collection Act; however, this limitation shall not apply to <span class="dictionary">contracts</span> or agreements entered into prior to July 1, 1990. <a id="paragraph-279670" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-3957/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 58-1020; 1973, c. 467; 1984, c. 675; 1990, c. 935.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
