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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>80709</law_id><section_number>58.1-626.1</section_number><catch_line>Absorption of tax permitted</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="6">Retail Sales and Use Tax</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> A dealer may absorb and assume payment of all or any part of the <span class="dictionary">sales</span> or <span class="dictionary">use</span> tax otherwise due from the purchaser, consumer, or lessee. <a id="paragraph-289325" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-626.1/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> A dealer shall separately state the <span class="dictionary">sales price</span> of an item and the full amount of sales and <span class="dictionary">use</span> tax due on such item at the point of the <span class="dictionary">sale</span> or transaction, even if the dealer intends to absorb and assume the amount of tax due. <a id="paragraph-289326" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-626.1/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> For each <span class="dictionary">sale</span> for which the dealer absorbs and assumes all or any part of the sales and <span class="dictionary">use</span> tax due, the dealer shall remit to the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> the full amount of tax due with the return that covers the period in which the dealer completed the <span class="dictionary">sale</span> or transaction. <a id="paragraph-289327" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-626.1/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>2019, c. 758.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
