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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>84403</law_id><section_number>58.1-405</section_number><catch_line>Corporations transacting or conducting entire business within this Commonwealth</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>58.1-399.1</reference><reference>58.1-405.1</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>Except as provided in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Eligibility of companies for apportionment modification; certification by the Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority" href="/58.1-405.1/">58.1-405.1</a>, if the entire business of the <span class="dictionary">corporation</span> is transacted or conducted within the Commonwealth, the tax imposed by this chapter shall be upon the entire Virginia taxable income of such <span class="dictionary">corporation</span> for each taxable year; however, if such <span class="dictionary">corporation</span> is certified by the Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority as an eligible company pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Eligibility of companies for apportionment modification; certification by the Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority" href="/58.1-405.1/">58.1-405.1</a>, it may elect to (i) apportion its income between qualified localities, as defined in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Eligibility of companies for apportionment modification; certification by the Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority" href="/58.1-405.1/">58.1-405.1</a>, and other localities in the Commonwealth, provided that it shall not apportion any of its income to a state other than Virginia and (ii) utilize any modification for which it may be eligible pursuant to the provisions of &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="What income apportioned and how" href="/58.1-408/">58.1-408</a>, <a class="law" title="Motor carriers; apportionment" href="/58.1-417/">58.1-417</a>, <a class="law" title="Financial corporations; apportionment" href="/58.1-418/">58.1-418</a>, <a class="law" title="Construction corporations; apportionment" href="/58.1-419/">58.1-419</a>, <a class="law" title="Railway companies; apportionment" href="/58.1-420/">58.1-420</a>, <a class="law" title="Manufacturing companies; apportionment" href="/58.1-422/">58.1-422</a>, <a class="law" title="Retail companies; apportionment" href="/58.1-422.1/">58.1-422.1</a>, or <a class="law" title="Apportionment; taxpayers with enterprise data center operations" href="/58.1-422.2/">58.1-422.2</a>, as applicable. The entire business of the <span class="dictionary">corporation</span> shall be deemed to have been transacted or conducted within the Commonwealth if such <span class="dictionary">corporation</span> is not subject in any other state to a net income tax, a franchise tax measured by net income, or a franchise tax for the <span class="dictionary">privilege</span> of doing business.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 58-151.033; 1971, Ex. Sess., c. 171; 1981, c. 402; 1984, c. 675; 2018, cc. 801, 802.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
