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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>81878</law_id><section_number>58.1-452</section_number><catch_line>Fraudulent returns; criminal liability; penalty</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 addition to other penalties provided by <span class="dictionary">law</span>, any officer of any <span class="dictionary">corporation</span> who makes a fraudulent return or statement with <span class="dictionary">intent</span> to evade the payment of the taxes prescribed by this chapter shall be guilty of a Class 6 <span class="dictionary">felony</span>. A <span class="dictionary">prosecution</span> under this section shall be commenced within five years next after the commission of the <span class="dictionary">offense</span>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 58-151.089; 1971, Ex. Sess., c. 171; 1984, c. 675; 2003, c. 180.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
