A. The Tax Commissioner annually shall make and issue comprehensive assessment sales ratio studies for each major class of real property in each county or city in the Commonwealth. In order to determine the degree of assessment uniformity in the assessment of major classes of property within each county or city, the Tax Commissioner shall compute measures of central tendency and dispersion in accordance with appropriate standard statistical techniques.
B. The Tax Commissioner shall construct and maintain a system for the collection and analysis of real property tax facts so as to enable him to make intrajurisdictional comparisons as well as intercounty and intercity comparisons based on assessment sales ratio data.
C. The Tax Commissioner shall publish annually the findings of the assessment sales ratio studies.
D. The appropriate county or city assessing officer shall post annually in his office the assessment sales ratio studies as published by the Tax Commissioner.
Code 1950, § 58-33.2; 1975, c. 617; 1984, c. 675.
Structure Code of Virginia
Chapter 2 - Department of Taxation
§ 58.1-202. General powers and duties of Tax Commissioner
§ 58.1-202.1. Payment of taxes by electronic funds transfer
§ 58.1-202.2. Public-private partnerships; Public Private Partnership Oversight Committee
§ 58.1-202.3. Fillable tax forms
§ 58.1-203. Regulations and rulings
§ 58.1-204. Publication of rulings, decisions, orders and regulations
§ 58.1-205. Effect of regulations, rulings, etc., and administrative interpretations
§ 58.1-206. Continuing education program for assessing officers and boards of equalization
§ 58.1-207. Collection and publication of property tax data
§ 58.1-208. Classifications of real property
§ 58.1-209. Disclosure of social security account numbers
§ 58.1-210. Publication showing rates of local levies
§ 58.1-211. Department to advise Comptroller of amounts to be charged state collecting officers
§ 58.1-212. Office of Tax Commissioner; sessions and investigations elsewhere
§ 58.1-213. Assistants and clerks
§ 58.1-214. Promulgation and distribution of tax forms
§ 58.1-215. Charge for sale of publications
§ 58.1-216. Writs, notices, processes, and orders
§ 58.1-217. Form of writs, processes and orders; how served
§ 58.1-218. Fees and mileage of witnesses
§ 58.1-219. Examination of books and records of taxpayers
§ 58.1-220. Waiver of time limitation on assessment of omitted or additional state taxes