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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>371012</law_id><section_number>58.1-1612</section_number><catch_line>Returns to be filed by manufacturer and severers; time of payment of tax</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="16" identifier="16">Forest Products Tax</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Every <span class="dictionary">manufacturer</span> or <span class="dictionary">severer</span> liable for the <span class="dictionary">forest products</span> tax, within 30 days after the expiration of each quarter, expiring respectively on the last day of March, June, September, and December of each year, shall file with the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> a return on forms prescribed by the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> showing:</p></section>
						<section id="1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> The kinds and gross quantity of <span class="dictionary">forest products</span> severed, used, consumed, processed, or stored during the preceding quarter upon which the person is liable for the tax; <a id="paragraph-1383914" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-1612/#1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="2"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> The county or counties in which such products were severed from the soil; <a id="paragraph-1383915" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-1612/#2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="3"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> The gross quantity of <span class="dictionary">forest products</span> severed from soil outside this Commonwealth; and <a id="paragraph-1383916" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-1612/#3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="4"><p><span class="prefix-number">4.</span> Other reasonable and necessary information pertaining thereto as the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> may require for the proper enforcement of the provisions of this chapter.
			At the time of rendering such quarterly returns, the <span class="dictionary">manufacturer</span> or <span class="dictionary">severer</span> liable for the tax shall pay to the <span class="dictionary">Department</span> the <span class="dictionary">forest products</span> tax on all <span class="dictionary">forest products</span> severed from the soil in this Commonwealth and embraced in such return. <a id="paragraph-1383917" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/58.1-1612/#4"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 58-838.8; 1956, c. 61; 1970, c. 770; 1972, c. 316; 1983, c. 109; 1984, c. 675; 2015, c. 170.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
