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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>87399</law_id><section_number>58.1-936</section_number><catch_line>Imposition of tax</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="5">Generation Skipping Transfers</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> A tax is hereby imposed upon every generation skipping transfer, where the original transferor is a <span class="dictionary">resident</span> of the Commonwealth of Virginia at the date of original transfer, in an amount equal to the amount allowable as credit for <span class="dictionary">state</span> legacy taxes under &#xA7; 2604 of the Internal Revenue Code, to the extent such credit exceeds the aggregate amount of all taxes on the same transfer actually paid to the several <span class="dictionary">states</span> of the United <span class="dictionary">States</span>, other than the Commonwealth of Virginia. <a id="paragraph-312924" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-936/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> A tax is hereby imposed upon every generation skipping transfer where the original transferor is not a <span class="dictionary">resident</span> of Virginia at the date of the original transfer, but where the generation skipping transfer includes real or personal property having a situs in Virginia, in an amount equal to the amount allowable as a credit for <span class="dictionary">state</span> legacy taxes under &#xA7; 2604 of the Internal Revenue Code, reduced by an amount which bears the same ratio to the total <span class="dictionary">state</span> tax credit allowable for federal generation skipping transfer tax purposes as the <span class="dictionary">value</span> of the transferred property taxable by all other <span class="dictionary">states</span> bears to the <span class="dictionary">value</span> of the gross generation skipping transfer for federal generation skipping transfer tax purposes. In any case in which a tax is imposed on a generation skipping transfer by Virginia and by one or more other <span class="dictionary">states</span> or the District of Columbia, the Commissioner shall negotiate with the taxing authorities of such other <span class="dictionary">state</span>, <span class="dictionary">states</span>, or District of Columbia so that the aggregate amount of taxes imposed by Virginia and such other <span class="dictionary">state</span>, <span class="dictionary">states</span> or the District of Columbia on a generation skipping transfer does not exceed 100 percent of the amount allowable as credit for <span class="dictionary">state</span> legacy taxes under &#xA7; 2604 of the Internal Revenue Code. <a id="paragraph-312925" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-936/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 58-238.37; 1979, c. 559; 1984, c. 675; 1987, c. 484.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
