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SB862: Withholding tax return; information furnished to Department of Taxation.

SENATE BILL NO. 862
Offered January 10, 2007
Prefiled January 8, 2007
A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 58.1-478.1, relating to the furnishing of income tax withholding information to the Department of Taxation.
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Patrons-- Reynolds; Delegate: Armstrong
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Referred to Committee on Finance
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 58.1-478.1 as follows:

§ 58.1-478.1. Information furnished to the Department of Taxation.

No person required to deduct and withhold from another employee's wages and to file a return or report of the same, including through use of an electronic medium, with the Department of Taxation as provided under this article, shall be required to provide his own social security number for purposes of fulfilling his duty in filing the return or report. However, nothing in this section shall relieve such person who is filing the return or report from including his name, social security number, wages, taxes deducted and withheld, and other information required under this article in any file, batch, return, report, or statement that incorporates the same information for all employees of the organization and that is required under this article to be submitted to the Department.

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