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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>59730</law_id><section_number>58.1-904</section_number><catch_line>Tax upon estates of alien decedents</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="9">Virginia Estate Tax</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="1">Substantive Provisions Generally</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> A tax in an amount computed as provided in this section is imposed upon the transfer of real property and tangible personal property having an actual situs in the Commonwealth of Virginia and upon intangible personal property physically present within the Commonwealth of every person who at the time of death was not a <span class="dictionary">resident</span> of the United <span class="dictionary">States</span>.
			The tax shall be an amount computed by multiplying the <span class="dictionary">federal credit</span> by a fraction, the numerator of which is the <span class="dictionary">value</span> of that part of the <span class="dictionary">gross estate</span> over which Virginia has <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> for estate tax purposes and the denominator of which is the <span class="dictionary">decedent</span>&#x2019;s <span class="dictionary">gross estate</span> taxable by the United <span class="dictionary">States</span> wherever situated. <a id="paragraph-218740" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-904/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> <span class="dictionary">Resident</span> aliens of the United <span class="dictionary">States</span> shall be subject to the tax imposed by this chapter under &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Tax on transfer of taxable estate of nonresidents; property of nonresident defined" href="/58.1-903/">58.1-903</a> when the <span class="dictionary">decedent</span>, at the time of death, was not a <span class="dictionary">resident</span> of Virginia but was a <span class="dictionary">resident</span> of the United <span class="dictionary">States</span>. A <span class="dictionary">resident</span> alien who, at the time of death, was a <span class="dictionary">resident</span> of Virginia and a <span class="dictionary">resident</span> of the United <span class="dictionary">States</span> shall be subject to the tax imposed by this chapter under &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Tax on transfer of taxable estate of residents; amounts; credit; property of resident defined" href="/58.1-902/">58.1-902</a>. <a id="paragraph-218741" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-904/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="C"><p><span class="prefix-number">C.</span> For purposes of this section, stock in a corporation organized under the <span class="dictionary">laws</span> of the Commonwealth shall be deemed physically present within the Commonwealth. <a id="paragraph-218742" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-904/#C"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 58-238.5; 1978, c. 838; 1984, c. 675.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
