Virginia State Tax Calculator (2026)

How Virginia taxes income

Virginia charges 2% to 5.75%. State tax is a separate calculation from your federal return rather than a share of it — Virginia sets its own schedule and its own definition of taxable income.

• Top marginal rate: 5.75%, reached at only $17,000 of taxable income
• Filing deadline: May 1 — two weeks after the federal deadline
• Standard deduction: $8,750 single / $17,500 joint
• Personal exemption: $930 per person

Rate figures are as of January 1, 2026 and come from the published Tax Foundation compilation; they have not been independently checked against Virginia Tax. States do change rates mid-year, so confirm a figure there before relying on it.

What catches people out in Virginia

• Virginia's individual filing deadline is May 1 under Va. Code § 58.1-341, not April 15. If the date falls on a weekend or holiday it moves to the next business day.
• Because the top bracket starts at $17,000 of taxable income, Virginia behaves like a flat 5.75% state for almost anyone with a full-time salary. The graduated structure has very little practical effect.
• Virginia has reciprocity arrangements with the District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Kentucky. Where reciprocity applies, wages are generally taxed only by your state of residence, which is the single most useful fact for a Northern Virginia commuter.
• Virginia grants an automatic six-month filing extension with no application required, though payment is still due by the original date.

What this estimate leaves out

Three things are deliberately outside this calculation, because they change more often than annually and a confident wrong number does real damage on a tax page.

• The personal exemption — $930 per person — is not applied, so the figure runs slightly high.
• Local and city income tax is not included. New York City is the significant one nationally.
• State-specific credits, subtractions and income addbacks are out of scope and can move the result either way.

If you have income in India, Virginia is where treaty relief runs out

States are not parties to the India-US tax treaty, and a state credit for "taxes paid to other jurisdictions" almost always means other US states rather than other countries.

So NRO interest, Indian rental income or a gain on Indian shares can be taxed by Virginia with no credit for the Indian tax deducted at source — even though Form 1116 largely neutralises that same tax federally.

The treatment is not uniform across states, and it has been verified individually rather than assumed. The state guide sets out this state's position with the primary source behind it.

Sources

• Tax Foundation — 2026 State Income Tax Rates and Brackets
• Virginia Tax — the authority for Virginia