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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>63978</law_id><section_number>58.1-445</section_number><catch_line>Consolidation of accounts</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="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="14">Accounting, Returns, Procedures for Corporations</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>In any case of two or more related trades or businesses liable to taxation under this chapter owned or controlled directly or indirectly by the same interests, the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> may, and at the request of the <span class="dictionary">taxpayer</span> shall, if necessary in <span class="dictionary">order</span> to make an accurate distribution or apportionment of gains, profits, income, deductions or capital between or among such related trades or businesses, consolidate the accounts of such related trades or businesses.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 58-151.082; 1971, Ex. Sess., c. 171; 1984, c. 675.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
