Virginia Tax Amnesty Program; established. (HB2246)

Introduced By

Del. Chris Jones (R-Suffolk)

Progress

Introduced
Passed Committee
Passed House
Passed Senate
Signed by Governor
Became Law

Description

Virginia Tax Amnesty Program. Establishes the Virginia Tax Amnesty Program to be administered by the Department of Taxation (the Department) during the 2017-2018 fiscal year for not less than 60 nor more than 75 days, as determined by the Tax Commissioner. The Program will be open to any taxpayer that is required but has failed to file a return or to pay any tax administered by the Department. All civil or criminal penalties assessed or assessable and one-half of the interest assessed or assessable, resulting from nonpayment, underpayment, nonreporting, or underreporting of tax liabilities will be waived upon payment of the taxes and interest. For purposes of implementing the Program, the Department is exempt from the project management and procurement oversight of the Virginia Information Technologies Agency. Read the Bill »

Outcome

Bill Has Passed

History

DateAction
01/11/2017Committee
01/11/2017Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101767D
01/11/2017Referred to Committee on Finance
01/15/2017Impact statement from TAX (HB2246)
01/17/2017Assigned Finance sub: Subcommittee #2
01/25/2017Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N)
01/30/2017Reported from Finance (21-Y 1-N) (see vote tally)
01/31/2017Read first time
02/01/2017Read second time and engrossed
02/02/2017Read third time and passed House (94-Y 0-N)
02/02/2017VOTE: PASSAGE (94-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/03/2017Constitutional reading dispensed
02/03/2017Referred to Committee on Finance
02/06/2017Impact statement from TAX (HB2246)
02/08/2017Reported from Finance (14-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/09/2017Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/10/2017Read third time
02/10/2017Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/14/2017Enrolled
02/14/2017Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2246ER)
02/14/2017Signed by Speaker
02/15/2017Signed by President
02/15/2017Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/15/17
02/15/2017G Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 22, 2017
02/17/2017Impact statement from TAX (HB2246ER)
02/20/2017G Approved by Governor-Chapter 53 (effective 7/1/17)
02/20/2017G Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0053)

Video

This bill was discussed on the floor of the General Assembly. Below is all of the video that we have of that discussion, 1 clip in all, totaling 50 seconds.

Transcript

This is a transcript of the video clips in which this bill is discussed.

BEEN NOW BOOKED IN THE BUDGET FOR HOW YOU CONSIDER FINDING THE EXTRA MONEY TO FUND ALL THESE RAISES WE ARE GOING TO DO. I WOULD ANSWER THE GENTLEMAN, NO, WE HAVE NOT. THANK YOU, MR. SPEAKER. THE BILL HASN'T PASSED BOTH

Del. Bill Howell (R-Fredericksburg): THANK YOU. CHAMBERS. WILL THE GENTLEMAN FROM SCOTT RESUME THE FLOOR FOR A QUESTION?

[Unknown]: GENTLEMAN YIELD? I YIELD. GENTLEMAN YIELDS. MR. SPEAKER, I WOULD ASK THE GENTLEMAN, WE'VE ALL BEEN VERY CONCERNED ABOUT EMPLOYMENT NUMBERS IN THE COALFIELDS, AND WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THIS IN THE PAST, AND WHEN THIS CREDIT WENT TO IN EFFECT, THERE WERE ABOUT 11 THOUSAND PEOPLE IN THE COALFIELDS EMPLOYED, AND IT DROPPED TO -- DROPPED PRECIPITOUSLY DURING THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION, AND THEN IT WEST DOWN TO ABOUT 2800 IN THE LAST YEAR OR SO.