§1645 — Title 48 Territories and Insular Possessions | U.S. Code

Summary

If the Virgin Islands sets its fiscal year as October 1 to September 30, the Treasury Secretary must, before that year starts, send the islands the duties, taxes, and fees the Governor and comptroller estimate will be collected under the Revised Organic Act, except amounts already paid into the islands' treasury. They must then adjust that payment up or down to match the difference between last year’s actual collections and the prior estimate, including deductions required by sections 1574a–1574d.

Title 48, §1645

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Beginning as soon as the government of the Virgin Islands enacts legislation establishing a fiscal year commencing on October 1 and ending on September 30, the Secretary of the Treasury, prior to the commencement of any fiscal year, shall remit to the government of the Virgin Islands the amount of duties, taxes, and fees which the Governor of the Virgin Islands, with the concurrence of the government comptroller of the Virgin Islands, has estimated will be collected in or derived from the Virgin Islands under the Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands [48 U.S.C. 1541 et seq.] during the next fiscal year, except for those sums covered directly upon collection into the treasury of the Virgin Islands. There shall be deducted from or added to the amounts so remitted, as may be appropriate, at the beginning of the fiscal year, the difference between the amount of duties, taxes, and fees actually collected during the prior fiscal year and the amount of such duties, taxes, and fees as estimated and remitted at the beginning of that prior fiscal year, including any deductions which may be required as a result of the operation of sections 1574a to 1574d 11 See References in Text note below. of this title.

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Editorial Notes

References in Text

The Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands, referred to in text, is act July 22, 1954, ch. 558, 68 Stat. 497, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 1541 of this title and Tables. section 1574d of this title, referred to in text, was repealed by Pub. L. 97–357, title III, § 308(g), Oct. 19, 1982, 96 Stat. 1710. Codification Section was not enacted as part of the Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands which comprises this chapter.

§1645 Remittance of Duties, Taxes, and Fees to Be Collected in Next Fiscal Year; Authorization, Prerequisites, Amount, Etc.