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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>63840</law_id><section_number>58.1-423</section_number><catch_line>Income tax paid by commercial spaceflight entities</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></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 id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> Beginning July 1, 2011, and for fiscal years 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016, the portion of the Virginia income tax net revenue generated by qualified <span class="dictionary">corporations</span> or limited liability companies that is attributable to the sale of commercial human spaceflights or commercial spaceflight training (regardless of point of sale, or where space flight takes place), or is incidental to the sale of commercial human spaceflights, shall be transferred to the Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority, established pursuant to Article 2 (&#xA7; <a class="law" title="Short title; definitions" href="/2.2-2201/">2.2-2201</a> et seq.) of Chapter 22 of Title 2.2. The <span class="dictionary">Tax Commissioner</span> shall make a written certification to the Comptroller within 15 days of the close of each calendar quarter providing an estimate of the portion of the Virginia income tax net revenue generated during the calendar quarter by the qualified <span class="dictionary">corporations</span> or limited liability companies that is attributable to the sale of commercial human spaceflights or commercial spaceflight training or is incidental to the sale of commercial human spaceflights. Not later than 30 days after the close of each quarter, the Comptroller shall transfer to the Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority an amount from the general fund that is equal to the estimate provided by the <span class="dictionary">Tax Commissioner</span>. <a id="paragraph-232565" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-423/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> For purposes of this section, a qualified <span class="dictionary">corporation</span> or limited liability company is a <span class="dictionary">corporation</span> or limited liability company that engages in commercial human spaceflights or commercial spaceflight training. <a id="paragraph-232566" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-423/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>2011, c. 563; 2012, cc. 779, 817; 2015, c. 260.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
