<?xml version="1.0"?>
<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>71554</law_id><section_number>58.1-439.18</section_number><catch_line>Definitions</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>58.1-3818.8</reference><reference>58.1-3843</reference><reference>58.1-439.24</reference><reference>58.1-490</reference><reference>58.1-602</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="13.2">Neighborhood Assistance Act Tax Credit</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>As used in this article:
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Affiliate</span>&#x201D; means with respect to any person, any other person directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by, or under common <span class="dictionary">control</span> with such person. For purposes of this definition, &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">control</span>&#x201D; (including controlled by and under common <span class="dictionary">control</span> with) shall mean the power, directly or indirectly, to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of such person whether through ownership or voting securities or by <span class="dictionary">contract</span> or otherwise.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Business firm</span>&#x201D; means any <span class="dictionary">corporation</span>, partnership, electing small business (Subchapter S) <span class="dictionary">corporation</span>, limited liability company, or sole proprietorship authorized to do business in this Commonwealth subject to tax imposed by Articles 2 (&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Imposition of tax" href="/58.1-320/">58.1-320</a> et seq.) and 10 (&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Imposition of tax" href="/58.1-400/">58.1-400</a> et seq.) of Chapter 3, Chapter 12 (&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Title" href="/58.1-1200/">58.1-1200</a> et seq.), Article 1 (&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/58.1-2500/">58.1-2500</a> et seq.) of Chapter 25, or Article 2 (&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Basis of tax" href="/58.1-2620/">58.1-2620</a> et seq.) of Chapter 26. &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Business firm</span>&#x201D; also means any <span class="dictionary">trust</span> or fiduciary for a <span class="dictionary">trust</span> subject to tax imposed by Article 6 (&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Imposition of tax" href="/58.1-360/">58.1-360</a> et seq.) of Chapter 3.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Commissioner of Social Services</span>&#x201D; means the <span class="dictionary">Commissioner of Social Services</span> or his designee.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary"><span class="dictionary">Community services</span></span>&#x201D; means any type of counseling and advice, emergency assistance, medical care, provision of basic necessities, or services designed to minimize the effects of poverty, furnished primarily to <span class="dictionary">low-income persons</span>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Contracting services</span>&#x201D; means the provision, by a <span class="dictionary">business firm</span> licensed by the Commonwealth as a contractor under Chapter 11 (&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/54.1-1100/">54.1-1100</a> et seq.) of Title 54.1, of labor or technical advice to aid in the development, construction, renovation, or repair of (i) homes of <span class="dictionary">low-income persons</span> or (ii) buildings used by <span class="dictionary">neighborhood organizations</span>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Education</span>&#x201D; means any type of scholastic instruction or <span class="dictionary">scholastic assistance</span> to a <span class="dictionary">low-income person</span> or an <span class="dictionary">eligible student with a disability</span>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Eligible student with a disability</span>&#x201D; means a student (i) for whom an individualized educational program has been written and finalized in accordance with the federal <span class="dictionary">Individuals</span> with Disabilities <span class="dictionary">Education</span> Act (IDEA), regulations promulgated pursuant to IDEA, and regulations of the Board of <span class="dictionary">Education</span> and (ii) whose family&#x2019;s annual household income is not in excess of 400 percent of the current <span class="dictionary">poverty guidelines</span>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Housing assistance</span>&#x201D; means furnishing financial assistance, labor, <span class="dictionary">material</span>, or technical advice to aid the physical improvement of the homes of <span class="dictionary">low-income persons</span>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Job training</span>&#x201D; means any type of instruction to an <span class="dictionary">individual</span> who is a <span class="dictionary">low-income person</span> that enables him to acquire vocational skills so that he can become employable or able to seek a higher grade of employment.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Low-income person</span>&#x201D; means an <span class="dictionary">individual</span> whose family&#x2019;s annual household income is not in excess of 300 percent of the current <span class="dictionary">poverty guidelines</span>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Neighborhood assistance</span>&#x201D; means providing <span class="dictionary"><span class="dictionary">community services</span></span>, <span class="dictionary">education</span>, <span class="dictionary">housing assistance</span>, or <span class="dictionary">job training</span>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Neighborhood organization</span>&#x201D; means any local, regional or statewide organization whose primary function is providing <span class="dictionary">neighborhood assistance</span> and holding a ruling from the Internal Revenue Service of the United States <span class="dictionary">Department</span> of the Treasury that the organization is exempt from income taxation under the provisions of &#xA7;&#xA7;&#xA0;501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time, or any organization defined as a community action agency in the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. &#xA7;&#xA0;2701 et seq.), or any housing authority as defined in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/36-3/">36-3</a>.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Poverty guidelines</span>&#x201D; means the <span class="dictionary">poverty guidelines</span> for the 48 contiguous states and the District of Columbia updated annually in the Federal Register by the U.S. <span class="dictionary">Department</span> of Health and Human Services under the authority of &#xA7;&#xA0;673(2) of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Professional services</span>&#x201D; means any type of personal service to the public that requires as a condition <span class="dictionary">precedent</span> to the rendering of such service the obtaining of a license or other legal authorization and shall include, but shall not be limited to, the personal services rendered by medical doctors, dentists, architects, professional engineers, certified public accountants, attorneys-at-<span class="dictionary">law</span>, and veterinarians.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Scholastic assistance</span>&#x201D; means (i) counseling or supportive services to elementary school, middle school, secondary school, or postsecondary school students or their parents in developing a postsecondary academic or vocational <span class="dictionary">education</span> plan, including college financing options for such students or their parents, or (ii) scholarships.</p></section></text><history>1981, c. 629, &#xA7; 63.1-321; 1982, c. 178; 1984, c. 720; 1989, c. 310; 1996, c. 77; 1997, c. 640; 1999, cc. 890, 909; 2002, c. 747, &#xA7; 63.2-2000; 2008, c. 585; 2009, cc. 10, 851; 2010, c. 164; 2011, cc. 312, 370; 2012, cc. 731, 842; 2016, c. 426.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
