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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>86048</law_id><section_number>58.1-813</section_number><catch_line>Collection of tax by Department</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="8">State Recordation Tax</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The <span class="dictionary">Department</span> may assess and collect any tax imposed by this chapter which has remained uncollected for thirty days. The <span class="dictionary">Department</span>, prior to collecting such tax, shall give notice to the <span class="dictionary">clerk of court</span> in whose office the tax was to be collected. The <span class="dictionary">Department</span> may then proceed to assess and collect the unpaid tax in the same manner and by the same methods used for the collection of any state tax administered by the <span class="dictionary">Department</span>.
		Any local tax collected hereunder in conjunction with the collection of a state tax by the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> shall be deposited into the state treasury. The Comptroller shall, by warrant drawn on the Treasurer of Virginia, remit to the proper city or county any amounts due to such city or county.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 58-65; 1978, c. 693; 1984, c. 675.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
