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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>69445</law_id><section_number>58.1-528</section_number><catch_line>Certification of debt by claimant agency; finalization of setoff</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="21">Setoff Debt Collection Act</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> Upon final determination of the debt due and owing the <span class="dictionary">claimant agency</span> or upon the <span class="dictionary">debtor</span>&#x2019;s <span class="dictionary">default</span> for failure to comply with &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Notification of intention to set off and right to hearing" href="/58.1-525/">58.1-525</a>, the <span class="dictionary">claimant agency</span> shall within twenty days notify the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> to setoff the <span class="dictionary">refund</span> against the debt. If the <span class="dictionary">claimant agency</span> fails to notify the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> within twenty days, the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> shall no longer be obligated to hold the <span class="dictionary">refund</span> for setoff. <a id="paragraph-251132" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-528/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> Upon receipt by the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> of a notification of final determination and setoff from the <span class="dictionary">claimant agency</span>, the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> shall finalize the setoff by transferring the proceeds collected for credit or payment in accordance with the provisions of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Accounting to claimant agency; confidentiality; credit to debtor's obligation" href="/58.1-532/">58.1-532</a> and by refunding any remaining balance to the <span class="dictionary">debtor</span> as if setoff had not occurred. <a id="paragraph-251133" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-528/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 58-19.15; 1981, c. 408; 1982, c. 621; 1984, c. 675; 1996, cc. 363, 413.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
