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Use this form to notify your employer of your Virginia income tax withholding status and exemptions. See instructions, worksheet and conditions for claiming exemptions on form VA-4.
Any individual subjected to Virginia income tax withholding must complete a Form VA-4 with your employer when employment begins. That includes full-time residents of the state, part-time residents for portions of the year they live in Virginia, and non-residents receiving income from a Virginia source.
In general, an employer who pays wages to one or more employees in Virginia is required to deduct and withhold state income tax from those wages. Since Virginia law substantially conforms to federal law, if federal law requires an employer to withhold tax from any payment, we also require Virginia withholding.
If each of my employees has completed federal Form W-4, may I use that information, rather than having them complete a separate Virginia Form VA-4? No. Virginia law differs from federal law with respect to the computation of exemptions for withholding tax.
Use this form to notify your employer of your Virginia income tax withholding status and the number of exemptions you are allowed to claim. See the instructions and worksheet for personal exemptions based on age, blindness and dependents.
Use this form to notify your employer of your Virginia income tax withholding status and exemptions. Fill out the Personal Exemption Worksheet and the Employee's Certificate, and sign and date the form.
We last updated the Employee's Withholding Exemption Certificate in January 2024, so this is the latest version of Form VA-4, fully updated for tax year 2023. You can download or print current or past-year PDFs of Form VA-4 directly from TaxFormFinder. You can print other Virginia tax forms here.
