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Virginia · tax year 2026

Does Virginia tax tips and overtime?

Neither deduction reduces your state tax.

Virginia taxes federal AGI less an $8,750 standard deduction and a $930 exemption per filer, at graduated rates from 2% to 5.75%. Its brackets are the same for every filing status. Neither federal deduction reduces Virginia tax, because both are taken below adjusted gross income, which is where Virginia starts.

What it means on a real paycheck

Take a single filer earning $50,000 a year, $8,000 of it in tips. Against the same person with no tips to declare, the federal deduction is worth $960.

In Virginia it is worth nothing extra. The state bill is identical either way, so $960 is the whole of it.

How Virginia works out the tax

Virginia charges graduated rates from 2% up to 5.75%, across four bands, after a standard deduction of $8,750 single or $17,500 filing jointly and an exemption of $930 a person. It begins from your federal adjusted gross income and applies its own reliefs from there.

Your own numbers

Your gross pay before any taxes or deductions.

Married filing separately cannot claim these deductions at all, so it is not offered here.

Traditional, pre-tax. Lowers income tax but not Social Security or Medicare.

Pre-tax cafeteria-plan premiums. These lower income tax and FICA.

Take-home pay per paycheck (26 per year)

$1,894

$49,246 a year after taxes and deductions.

Virginia taxes federal AGI less an $8,750 standard deduction and a $930 exemption per filer, at graduated rates from 2% to 5.75%. Its brackets are the same for every filing status. Neither federal deduction reduces Virginia tax, because both are taken below adjusted gross income, which is where Virginia starts. See what that costs you →

Where the money goes each year

Gross salary$62,000
Federal income taxTop rate applied: 12%−$5,260
Social Security−$3,844
Medicare−$899
State income tax (VA)Graduated brackets on $52,320 of state taxable income−$2,751
Take-home pay$49,246

Per paycheck

Gross$2,385
Taxes withheld−$491
Net$1,894

Estimate for tax year 2026 assuming the standard deduction, no dependents or credits, and even pay across the year. Your employer withholds using your Form W-4, so an individual paycheck can differ. Effective total tax rate: 20.57%. Not tax advice.

Where these figures come from

Virginia’s rates and reliefs here were taken from Virginia’s own publication and last checked on 2026-08-01. A state appears in this calculator only once its figures have been read off that state’s own paperwork and covered by tests — never estimated, and never copied from another site.

Figures on this page are for tax year 2026 and were last checked against the primary sources on 2026-07-31. See our sources. This is an estimate, not tax advice.

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