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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>372574</law_id><section_number>58.1-654</section_number><catch_line>Returns by communications services providers; payment to accompany return</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="6" identifier="6.2">Virginia Communications Sales and Use Tax</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> Every <span class="dictionary">communications services provider</span> required to collect or pay the sales or use tax shall, on or before the twentieth day of the month following the month in which the tax is billed, transmit to the <span class="dictionary">Tax Commissioner</span> a return showing the <span class="dictionary">sales price</span>, or <span class="dictionary">cost price</span>, as the case may be, and the tax collected or accrued arising from all transactions taxable under this chapter. In the case of <span class="dictionary">communications services providers</span> regularly keeping books and accounts on the basis of an annual period that varies from 52 to 53 weeks, the <span class="dictionary">Tax Commissioner</span> may make rules and regulations for reporting consistent with such accounting period.
			A sales or use tax return shall be filed by each registered <span class="dictionary">communications services provider</span> even though the <span class="dictionary">communications services provider</span> is not liable to remit to the <span class="dictionary">Tax Commissioner</span> any tax for the period covered by the return. <a id="paragraph-1389550" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-654/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> At the time of transmitting the return required under subsection A, the <span class="dictionary">communications services provider</span> shall remit to the <span class="dictionary">Tax Commissioner</span> the amount of tax due after making appropriate adjustments for accounts uncollectible and charged off as provided in &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Bad debts" href="/58.1-655/">58.1-655</a>. The tax imposed by this chapter shall, for each period, become delinquent on the twenty-first day of the succeeding month if not paid. <a id="paragraph-1389551" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-654/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>2006, c. 780.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
