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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>371401</law_id><section_number>58.1-2676</section_number><catch_line>Action of Supreme Court thereon</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="3" identifier="II">Taxes Administered by Other Agencies</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="5" identifier="26">Taxation of Public Service Corporations</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="5" identifier="7">Administrative and Judicial Review of Assessment and Tax</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>If the Supreme <span class="dictionary">Court</span> determines that the assessment or tax is excessive, it shall reduce the same or if it is insufficient, it shall increase the same. Unless the taxes so assessed or ascertained were paid under protest, when due, the <span class="dictionary">Court</span>, if it disallows the claim, on the <span class="dictionary">appeal</span> of the <span class="dictionary">taxpayer</span>, shall, in upholding the assessment, give <span class="dictionary">judgment</span> against such <span class="dictionary">taxpayer</span> for the taxes so assessed and ascertained and for a sum, by way of <span class="dictionary">damages</span>, equal to interest at the rate of one percent a month upon the amount of the taxes from the time the same were payable.</p><p>If the decision is in favor of the <span class="dictionary">taxpayer</span>, in whole or in part, appropriate relief shall be granted, including the right to recover any excess of taxes that have been paid, with legal interest thereon and with the costs incurred by such <span class="dictionary">taxpayer</span>, from the Commonwealth or local authorities, or both, as the case may be, the <span class="dictionary">judgment</span> to be enforceable by mandamus or other proper process issuing from the <span class="dictionary">Court</span>.</p><p>If the decision be in favor of the Commonwealth or of any county, city or town, appropriate relief shall be granted and enforced by mandamus or other proper process issuing from the <span class="dictionary">Court</span>.</p><p>The <span class="dictionary">Court</span> may, when deemed proper so to do, return the case to the Commission for further proceedings, either by way of <span class="dictionary">hearing</span> or for appropriate remedy.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 58-680; 1984, c. 675.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
