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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>372407</law_id><section_number>58.1-465</section_number><catch_line>Overlapping pay periods, and payment by agent or fiduciary</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2026/" slug="2026" current="TRUE" last_updated="2026-08-02">2026</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="125" identifier="58.1">Taxation</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="2" identifier="I">Taxes Administered by the Department of Taxation</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="3" identifier="3">Income Tax</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="15" identifier="16">Income Tax Withholding</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The manner of withholding and the amount to be deducted and withheld under this article shall be determined in accordance with regulations prescribed by the <span class="dictionary">Tax Commissioner</span> under which the withholding exemption allowed to the <span class="dictionary">employee</span> in any calendar year shall approximate the withholding exemption allowable with respect to an annual <span class="dictionary">payroll period</span>, if a payment of <span class="dictionary">wages</span> is made to an <span class="dictionary">employee</span> by an <span class="dictionary">employer</span>:</p></section>
						<section id="1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> With respect to a <span class="dictionary">payroll period</span> or other period, any part of which is included in a <span class="dictionary">payroll period</span> or other period with respect to which <span class="dictionary">wages</span> are also paid to such <span class="dictionary">employee</span> by such <span class="dictionary">employer</span>; <a id="paragraph-1388776" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-465/#1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="2"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> Without regard to any <span class="dictionary">payroll period</span> or other period, but on or prior to the expiration of a <span class="dictionary">payroll period</span> or other period with respect to which <span class="dictionary">wages</span> are also paid to such <span class="dictionary">employee</span> by such <span class="dictionary">employer</span>; <a id="paragraph-1388777" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-465/#2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="3"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> With respect to a period beginning in one and ending in another calendar year; or <a id="paragraph-1388778" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-465/#3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="4"><p><span class="prefix-number">4.</span> Through an agent, fiduciary, or other person who also has the control, receipt, <span class="dictionary">custody</span>, or disposal of, or pays, the <span class="dictionary">wages</span> payable by another <span class="dictionary">employer</span> to such <span class="dictionary">employee</span>. <a id="paragraph-1388779" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-465/#4"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 58-151.6; 1962, c. 612; 1984, c. 675.</history><metadata><court_decisions></court_decisions></metadata></law>
