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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>75981</law_id><section_number>58.1-401</section_number><catch_line>Exemptions and exclusions</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>58.1-418</reference><reference>58.1-441</reference><reference>58.1-442</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="I">Taxes Administered by the Department of Taxation</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="3">Income Tax</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="10">Taxation of Corporations</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>No tax levied pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Imposition of tax" href="/58.1-400/">58.1-400</a>, <a class="law" title="Minimum tax on telecommunications companies" href="/58.1-400.1/">58.1-400.1</a> or <a class="law" title="Taxation of electric suppliers, pipeline distribution companies, gas utilities, and gas suppliers" href="/58.1-400.2/">58.1-400.2</a> is imposed on:</p></section>
						<section id="1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> A public service <span class="dictionary">corporation</span> to the extent such <span class="dictionary">corporation</span> is subject to the license tax on gross receipts contained in Chapter 26 (&#xA7; <a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/58.1-2600/">58.1-2600</a> et seq.) of this title; <a id="paragraph-272768" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-401/#1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="2"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> Insurance companies to the extent such company is subject to the license tax on gross premiums under Chapter 25 (&#xA7; <a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/58.1-2500/">58.1-2500</a> et seq.) of this title and reciprocal or interinsurance exchanges which pay a premium tax to the Commonwealth as provided by <span class="dictionary">law</span>; <a id="paragraph-272769" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-401/#2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="3"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> State and national banks, banking associations and <span class="dictionary">trust</span> companies to the extent such companies are subject to the bank franchise tax on net capital;
			3a. Credit unions organized and conducted as such under the <span class="dictionary">laws</span> of the Commonwealth or under the <span class="dictionary">laws</span> of the United States; <a id="paragraph-272770" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-401/#3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="4"><p><span class="prefix-number">4.</span> Electing small business <span class="dictionary">corporations</span> (S <span class="dictionary">corporations</span>); <a id="paragraph-272771" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-401/#4"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="5"><p><span class="prefix-number">5.</span> Religious, educational, benevolent and other <span class="dictionary">corporations</span> not organized or conducted for pecuniary profit which by reason of their purposes or activities are exempt from income tax under the <span class="dictionary">laws</span> of the United States, except those organizations which have unrelated business income or other taxable income under such <span class="dictionary">laws</span>, except as provided in &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Taxation of electric suppliers, pipeline distribution companies, gas utilities, and gas suppliers" href="/58.1-400.2/">58.1-400.2</a>; <a id="paragraph-272772" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-401/#5"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="6"><p><span class="prefix-number">6.</span> Telephone companies chartered in the Commonwealth which are exclusively a local mutual association and are not designated to accumulate profits for the benefit of, or to pay dividends to, the stockholders or members thereof; <a id="paragraph-272773" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-401/#6"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="7"><p><span class="prefix-number">7.</span> A <span class="dictionary">corporation</span> that has contracted with a commercial printer for printing and that is not otherwise taxable shall not become taxable by reason of: (i) the ownership or leasing by that <span class="dictionary">corporation</span> of tangible personal property located at the Virginia premises of the commercial printer and used solely in connection with the printing <span class="dictionary">contract</span> with such person; (ii) the sale by that <span class="dictionary">corporation</span> at another location of property of any kind printed at and shipped or distributed from the Virginia premises of the commercial printer; (iii) the activities in connection with the printing <span class="dictionary">contract</span> with such person of any kind performed by or on behalf of that <span class="dictionary">corporation</span> at the Virginia premises of the commercial printer; and (iv) the activities in connection with the printing <span class="dictionary">contract</span> with such person performed by the commercial printer for or on behalf of that <span class="dictionary">corporation</span>; <a id="paragraph-272774" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-401/#7"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="8"><p><span class="prefix-number">8.</span> Foreign <span class="dictionary">sales</span> <span class="dictionary">corporations</span> (FSC) and any income attributable to an FSC under the rules relating to the taxation of an FSC in Part III, Subpart C of the Internal Revenue Code (&#xA7; 921 et seq.) and the regulations thereunder; and <a id="paragraph-272775" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-401/#8"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="9"><p><span class="prefix-number">9.</span> For taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2014, domestic international <span class="dictionary">sales</span> <span class="dictionary">corporations</span> (DISC) under the rules relating to the taxation of a DISC in Part IV, Subpart A of the Internal Revenue Code (&#xA7; 991 et seq.) and the regulations thereunder. <a id="paragraph-272776" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-401/#9"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 58-151.03; 1971, Ex. Sess., c. 171; 1972, c. 310; 1978, cc. 159, 796; 1981, c. 402; 1984, c. 675; 1985, c. 221; 1987, c. 484; 1988, cc. 581, 899; 1995, cc. 422, 472; 1999, c. 971; 2014, cc. 26, 186.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
