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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>73799</law_id><section_number>58.1-809</section_number><catch_line>When supplemental writings not taxable</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>58.1-807</reference><reference>58.1-816</reference></referred_to_by><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="8">State Recordation Tax</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Sections <a class="law" title="Deeds of trust or mortgages; maximum tax" href="/58.1-803/">58.1-803</a>, <a class="law" title="Contracts generally; leases" href="/58.1-807/">58.1-807</a>, and <a class="law" title="Sales contracts for the sale of rolling stock or equipment" href="/58.1-808/">58.1-808</a> are not to be construed as requiring the payment of any tax for the recordation of any deed of trust, deed of <span class="dictionary">subordination</span>, mortgage, <span class="dictionary">contract</span>, agreement, modification, <span class="dictionary">addendum</span>, or other writing that is supplemental to any deed of trust, mortgage, <span class="dictionary">contract</span>, agreement, modification, <span class="dictionary">addendum</span>, or other writing theretofore admitted to record upon which the tax herein imposed has been paid, or which is exempt from the tax herein imposed by reason of subsection C of &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Construction loan deeds of trust or mortgages" href="/58.1-804/">58.1-804</a>, when the sole purpose and effect of the supplemental instrument is to wrap around a prior instrument, to convey property, in addition to or in substitution, in whole or in part, of the property conveyed in a prior instrument, to secure or to better secure the payment of the amount contracted for in a prior instrument, to alter the priority of a prior instrument, or to modify the terms, conditions, parties, or provisions of a prior instrument, other than to increase the amount of the principal obligation secured thereby.
		The assumption of a deed of trust shall not be separately taxable under &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Deeds generally; charter amendments" href="/58.1-801/">58.1-801</a>, <a class="law" title="Deeds of trust or mortgages; maximum tax" href="/58.1-803/">58.1-803</a> or <a class="law" title="Contracts generally; leases" href="/58.1-807/">58.1-807</a>, whether such assumption is by a separate instrument or included in the deed of conveyance.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 58-60; 1977, c. 153; 1981, c. 621; 1984, c. 675; 2015, cc. 434, 488.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
