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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>372409</law_id><section_number>58.1-467</section_number><catch_line>Failure of employer to withhold tax; payment by recipient of wages</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>If the <span class="dictionary">employer</span>, in violation of the provisions of this article, fails to deduct and withhold the tax under this article, and thereafter the tax against which such tax may be credited is paid, the tax so required to be deducted and withheld shall not be collected from the <span class="dictionary">employer</span>. This section shall in no case relieve the <span class="dictionary">employer</span> from liability for any penalties or additions to the tax otherwise applicable in respect of such failure to deduct and withhold.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 58-151.8; 1962, c. 612; 1984, c. 675.</history><metadata><court_decisions></court_decisions></metadata></law>
