                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DISPOSITION OF COMMUNICATIONS SALES AND USE TAX REVENUE; COMMUNICATIONS SALES
AND USE TAX TRUST FUND; LOCALITIES&#8217; SHARE (§ 58.1-662)

A. There is hereby created in the Department of the Treasury a special
nonreverting fund which shall be known as the Communications Sales and Use Tax
Trust Fund (the Fund). The Fund shall be established on the books of the
Comptroller and any funds remaining in the Fund at the end of a biennium shall
not revert to the general fund but shall remain in the Fund. Interest earned on
the funds shall be credited to the Fund. After transferring moneys from the Fund
to the Department of Taxation to pay for the direct costs of administering this
chapter, the moneys in the Fund shall be allocated to the Commonwealth&#8217;s
counties, cities, and towns, and distributed in accordance with subsection C,
after the payment (i) for the telephone relay service center is made to the
Department for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing in accordance with the provisions of
&#xA7; 51.5-115 and (ii) of any franchise fee amount due to localities in
accordance with any cable franchise in effect as of January 1, 2007.

B. The localities&#8217; share of the net revenue distributable under this
section among the counties, cities, and towns shall be apportioned by the Tax
Commissioner and distributed as soon as practicable after the close of each
month during which the net revenue was received into the Fund. The distribution
of the localities&#8217; share of such net revenue shall be computed with
respect to the net revenue received in the state treasury during each month.

C. The net revenue distributable among the counties, cities, and towns shall be
apportioned and distributed monthly according to each county&#8217;s,
city&#8217;s, and town&#8217;s pro rata distribution from the Fund in fiscal
year 2010. Beginning July 1, 2011, the percentage share of the distribution due
to Lancaster County shall be adjusted as if, in addition to the revenues
Lancaster County received from telecommunications and television cable taxes in
fiscal year 2006, it received $270,497 in local consumer utility taxes on
telephone service in fiscal year 2006.
			An amount equal to the total franchise fee paid to each locality with a cable
franchise existing on the effective date of this section at the rate in
existence on January 1, 2007, shall be subtracted from the amount owed to such
locality prior to the distribution of moneys from the Fund.
			The Department of Taxation shall adjust the percentage share of distribution
from the Fund due to each locality entitled to a distribution from the Fund upon
a ruling by the Tax Commissioner in favor of a county, city, or town, provided
that any such ruling in favor of a county, city, or town shall not result in
more than an aggregate of $100,000 being redistributed from all other counties,
cities, and towns. Counties, cities, and towns are authorized to request such
ruling. The Tax Commissioner shall issue no such ruling changing the current
distribution in favor of a county, city, or town unless the county, city, or
town provides evidence to the Tax Commissioner that it had collected
telecommunications and television cable funds (local consumer utility tax on
landlines and wireless, E-911, business license tax in excess of 0.5 percent,
cable franchise fee, video programming excise tax, local consumer utility tax on
cable television) in fiscal year 2006 from local tax rates adopted on or before
January 1, 2006.

D. For the purposes of the Comptroller making the required transfers, the Tax
Commissioner shall make a written certification to the Comptroller no later than
the twenty-fifth of each month certifying the communications sales and use tax
revenues generated in the preceding month. Within three calendar days of
receiving such certification, the Comptroller shall make the required transfers
to the Communications Sales and Use Tax Trust Fund.

E. If errors are made in any distribution, or adjustments are otherwise
necessary, the errors shall be corrected and adjustments made in the
distribution for the next month or for subsequent months.

HISTORY: 2006, c. 780; 2008, cc. 25, 148; 2009, cc. 680, 683; 2010, cc. 285,
365, 385; 2011, c. 364.