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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>58398</law_id><section_number>58.1-486.3</section_number><catch_line>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="16.1">Withholding by Pass-Through Entities</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> If any payment is not made in full when due, there shall be added to the entire tax or to any unpaid balance of the tax a <span class="dictionary">penalty</span> of six percent of the amount thereof, if the failure is for not more than one month, with an additional six percent for each additional month or fraction thereof during which such failure to pay continues, not exceeding 30 percent in the aggregate. The entire tax or any unpaid balance of the tax, together with such <span class="dictionary">penalty</span> and interest, shall immediately become collectible. Interest upon such tax or any unpaid balance of the tax and on the accrued <span class="dictionary">penalty</span> shall be added at a rate determined in accordance with &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Rate of interest" href="/58.1-15/">58.1-15</a> from the date the tax or any unpaid balance of the tax was originally due until paid. In the case of an additional tax assessed by the <span class="dictionary">Department</span>, if the return was made in good faith and the understatement of the amount in the return was not due to any fault of the <span class="dictionary">taxpayer</span>, there shall be no <span class="dictionary">penalty</span> on the additional tax because of such understatement, but interest shall be added to the amount of the deficiency at a rate determined in accordance with &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Rate of interest" href="/58.1-15/">58.1-15</a> from the time the return was required by <span class="dictionary">law</span> to be filed until paid. <a id="paragraph-213853" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-486.3/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> In any month or fraction thereof for which the pass-through entity is subject to the <span class="dictionary">penalty</span> imposed under &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Failure of pass-through entity to make a return" href="/58.1-394.1/">58.1-394.1</a> and the <span class="dictionary">penalty</span> under this section, the greater of the two penalties shall apply. <a id="paragraph-213854" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-486.3/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> The <span class="dictionary">penalty</span> under this section shall not apply to any tax attributable to income that was included in a return filed pursuant to &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Nonresident owners" href="/58.1-395/">58.1-395</a>. <a id="paragraph-213855" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-486.3/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>2010, c. 120.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
