Except as provided under § 58.1-3010, and except as provided by ordinance or special act in localities authorized to tax certain property on a proportional monthly or quarterly basis, tangible personal property, machinery and tools and merchants' capital shall be returned for taxation as of January 1 of each year, which date shall be known as the effective date of assessment or the tax day. The status of all persons, firms, corporations and other taxpayers liable for taxation on any of such property shall be fixed as of the date aforesaid in each year and the value of all such property shall be taken as of such date, except that any county, city or town may permit a taxpayer to return as merchants' capital the average amount of capital employed in his business on such date and on the next preceding August first.
Code 1950, § 58-835; 1979, cc. 571, 576; 1982, c. 623; 1984, c. 675.
Structure Code of Virginia
Chapter 35 - Tangible Personal Property, Machinery and Tools and Merchants' Capital
§ 58.1-3500. Defined and segregated for local taxation
§ 58.1-3501. Tangible personal property leased to agency of federal, state or local government
§ 58.1-3503. General classification of tangible personal property
§ 58.1-3506. Other classifications of tangible personal property for taxation
§ 58.1-3506.2. Restrictions and conditions
§ 58.1-3506.3. Permanently and totally disabled defined
§ 58.1-3506.4. Local restrictions and conditions; model ordinance
§ 58.1-3506.7. Effective date; change in circumstances
§ 58.1-3508.1. Separate classification of machinery and tools used in semiconductor manufacturing
§ 58.1-3508.2. Separate classification of machinery and tools used in other businesses
§ 58.1-3509. Merchants' capital subject to local taxation; rate limit
§ 58.1-3510. Definition of merchants' capital
§ 58.1-3510.01. Separate classification of merchants' capital of pharmaceutical wholesalers
§ 58.1-3510.02. Separate classification of certain merchants' capital of wholesalers and retailers
§ 58.1-3510.4. Short-term rental property; short-term rental businesses
§ 58.1-3510.5. Renter's certificate of registration
§ 58.1-3510.6. Short-term rental property tax
§ 58.1-3510.7. Exemptions; penalties
§ 58.1-3513. When imports deemed to acquire situs
§ 58.1-3514. When cargo in transit not deemed to have acquired a situs for taxation
§ 58.1-3515. Tax day January 1
§ 58.1-3516. Proration of personal property tax
§ 58.1-3516.1. Payment of taxes prorated under § 58.1-3516
§ 58.1-3516.2. Payment of taxes on leased property by lessee; information to be furnished by lessor
§ 58.1-3517. Department of Taxation to prescribe and furnish forms of returns; use of local forms
§ 58.1-3518. Taxpayers to file returns
§ 58.1-3518.1. Alternative method of filing returns for motor vehicles, trailers and boats
§ 58.1-3519. Commissioner to assess property if taxpayer fails to file return