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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>87449</law_id><section_number>60.2-536.5</section_number><catch_line>Definitions</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="60.2">Unemployment Compensation</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="5">Taxation</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="4">Computation of Tax Rate</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>As used in &#xA7;&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Transfers for the purpose of obtaining a lower unemployment compensation tax rate; assignment of rates" href="/60.2-536.1/">60.2-536.1</a> through <a class="law" title="Violations; penalties" href="/60.2-536.3/">60.2-536.3</a>, unless the context requires a different meaning:
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Knowingly</span>&#x201D; means having actual knowledge of or acting with deliberate ignorance or reckless disregard for the prohibition involved.
		&#x201C;Person&#x201D; shall have the meaning given such term by &#xA7;&#xA0;7701 (a) (1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Trade</span>&#x201D; or &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">business</span>&#x201D; includes the employer&#x2019;s workforce.
		&#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Violates</span>&#x201D; or &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">attempts</span>&#x201D; to violate includes <span class="dictionary">intent</span> to evade, misrepresentation, or willful nondisclosure.</p></section></text><history>2005, cc. 47, 91.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
