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...(A) The tax commissioner or an agent of the commissioner may enter and inspect the facilities and records of a person selling cigarettes, other tobacco products, or vapor products. Such entrance and inspection requires a properly issued search warrant if conducted outside the normal business hours of the person, but does not require a search warrant if conducted during the normal business hours of the person. No pers...

...sociation other than a corporation, the application shall state the name and address of each of its members. If the applicant is a corporation, the application shall state the name and address of each of its officers. At the time of making the application required by this section, every person desiring to engage in the retail business of trafficking in cigarettes shall pay an application fee in the sum of one hundred...

...ach county auditor shall certify to the tax commissioner a list showing the names of all persons licensed in the auditor's county to engage in the business of trafficking in cigarettes, and such other information as to each, available from the records in the office of the auditor, as the commissioner prescribes. As such licenses are issued during the year, the auditor shall certify like lists and additions thereto to...

...licate to the county auditor and to the tax commissioner, and thereafter such person shall be considered not to have obtained any license; provided that after the expiration of one year from the date of such revocation, such person may apply for such license.

...9.01 to 119.13 of the Revised Code, the tax commissioner may revoke any manufacturer, importer, wholesale, or retail cigarette license for violation of sections 5743.01 to 5743.21 of the Revised Code. In the case of a wholesale or retail cigarette license, a certified copy of the order revoking such license shall be transmitted to the county auditor of the county in which the license was issued. In the case of a lice...

...No person shall engage in business as a manufacturer or importer, or in the wholesale or retail business of trafficking in cigarettes, without having a license therefor as required by section 5743.15 of the Revised Code.

...nother licensed wholesale dealer if the tax commissioner has authorized the sale of the cigarettes between those wholesale dealers and the wholesale dealer that sells the cigarettes received them directly from a licensed manufacturer or licensed importer. The tax commissioner shall adopt rules governing sales of cigarettes between licensed wholesale dealers, including rules establishing criteria for authorizing suc...

...ates to identify cigarettes exempt from taxation by the United States pursuant to section 5704(b) of the "Internal Revenue Code of 1986," 100 Stat. 2085, 26 U.S.C.A. 5704(b), including any notice or label described in 27 C.F.R. 290.185; (2) Is not labeled in conformity with the "Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act," 79 Stat. 282, 15 U.S.C.A. 1331 (1965), or any other federal requirement for the placement ...

...As used in sections 5743.31 to 5743.35, inclusive, of the Revised Code: (A) "Person" includes individuals, firms, partnerships, associations, joint stock companies, corporations, and combinations of individuals of whatever form. (B) "Storage" includes any keeping or retention of cigarettes for use or consumption in this state. (C) "Use" includes the exercise of any right or power incidental to the ownership of cig...

...al revenue fund of the state, an excise tax is hereby levied on the use, consumption, or storage for consumption of cigarettes by consumers in this state at the rate of eighty mills on each cigarette. The tax shall not apply if the tax levied by section 5743.02 of the Revised Code has been paid. The money received into the state treasury from the excise tax levied by this section shall be credited to the general rev...

...the same purposes for which it levies a tax under section 5743.021 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners of a county that has within its territorial boundaries a qualifying regional arts and cultural district and that levies a tax under that section, by resolution adopted by a majority of the board, shall levy a tax at the same rate on the use, consumption, or storage for consumption of cigarettes by...

... and to pay the expenses of levying the tax or for such purposes and to provide revenues to the county for permanent improvements, the board of county commissioners of a county that levies a tax under division (A) of section 5743.024 of the Revised Code shall by resolution adopted by a majority of the board levy a tax at the same rate on the use, consumption, or storage for consumption of cigarettes by consumers in t...

... and to pay the expenses of levying the tax, the board of county commissioners that levies a tax under section 5743.026 of the Revised Code shall, by resolution adopted by a majority of the board, levy a tax at the same rate on the use, consumption, or storage for consumption of cigarettes by consumers in the county, provided that the tax shall not apply if the tax levied by section 5743.026 of the Revised Code has b...

...026 of the Revised Code have been paid. Application for the consent shall be in the form prescribed by the tax commissioner. Every person transporting such cigarettes shall possess the consent while transporting or possessing the cigarettes within this state and shall produce the consent upon request of any law enforcement officer or authorized agent of the tax commissioner. Any person transporting such cigaret...

...If any person required to pay the tax levied under section 5743.32, 5743.321, 5743.323, or 5743.324 of the Revised Code, fails to make remittance, the tax commissioner may issue an assessment against that person based on any information in the commissioner's possession. Sections 5743.081 and 5743.082 of the Revised Code relating to the assessments or findings, appeals from assessments or findings, the effect of ass...

... Revised Code to file a return with the tax commissioner shall fail to make such return, or fail to pay the applicable taxes levied under section 5743.32, 5743.321, 5743.323, or 5743.324 of the Revised Code, or fail to pay any lawful assessment issued by the commissioner.

...No person engaged in the business of trafficking in cigarettes or in the business of distributing tobacco products, vapor products, or both shall fail to post and keep constantly displayed in a conspicuous place in the building where such business is carried on the license required by section 5743.15 or 5743.61 of the Revised Code, or sell or offer to sell cigarettes, cigarette wrappers, or a substitute for either, o...

...No person shall sell, exchange, give away, or offer to sell, exchange, or give away cigarettes, tobacco products, or a substitute for cigarettes or tobacco products, containing a substance foreign to tobacco and deleterious to health.

...ate, who furnishes to the department of taxation, attorney general, or any law enforcement agency original information concerning any violation of Chapter 5743. of the Revised Code, which information results in the collection and recovery of any tax or penalty or leads to the forfeiture of any cigarettes, may be awarded and paid by the treasurer of state, upon the certification of the tax commissioner, a compensation...

...ct to division (C) of this section, the tax commissioner, by journal entry, may delegate any investigation powers of the commissioner to an employee of the department of taxation who has been certified by the Ohio peace officer training commission and who is engaged in the enforcement of those chapters. A separate journal entry shall be entered for each employee to whom that power is delegated. Each journal entry sha...

...The department of taxation shall cooperate with the attorney general, local law enforcement officials, and the appropriate agencies of the federal government and other states in the investigation and prosecution of violations of this chapter.

...al revenue fund of the state, an excise tax on tobacco products and vapor products is hereby levied at one of the following rates: (1) For tobacco products other than little cigars or premium cigars, seventeen per cent of the wholesale price of the tobacco product received by a distributor or sold by a manufacturer to a retail dealer located in this state. (2) Thirty-seven per cent of the wholesale price of littl...

...llion three hundred thousand may levy a tax under this section for the purpose of section 307.673 of the Revised Code regardless of whether or not the cooperative agreement authorized under that section has been entered into prior to the day the resolution adopted under this section is adopted, for the purpose of reimbursing a county for costs incurred in the construction of a sports facility pursuant to an agreement...

...cts or vapor distributor subject to the tax levied by section 5743.51 or 5743.511 of the Revised Code, on or before the twenty-third day of each month, shall file with the tax commissioner a return for the preceding month showing any information the tax commissioner finds necessary for the proper administration of this chapter, together with remittance of the tax due. The return and payment of the tax required by thi...

...r vapor products in a county in which a tax is levied under section 5743.511 of the Revised Code shall, within thirty days after the date on which the tax takes effect, make and file a return, on a form prescribed by the tax commissioner, showing the total number of tobacco products or vapor products which such retail dealer had on hand as of the beginning of business on the date on which the tax takes effect and suc...

...07.03 of the Revised Code by filing an application for final assessment in accordance with section 5711.26 of the Revised Code.

...gibles fails to make and furnish to the tax commissioner the report required by section 5725.14 of the Revised Code, within the time fixed by that section, a penalty shall be imposed equal to the greater of fifty dollars per month or fraction of a month, not to exceed five hundred dollars, or five per cent per month or fraction of a month, not to exceed fifty per cent, of the tax required to be shown on the report, f...

...(A) An annual franchise tax on the privilege of being an insurance company is hereby levied on each domestic insurance company. In the month of May, annually, the treasurer of state shall charge for collection from each domestic insurance company a franchise tax in the amount computed in accordance with the following, as applicable: (1) With respect to a domestic insurance company that is a health insuring corpora...

...Upon the issuance of a tax credit certificate by the Ohio venture capital authority under section 150.07 of the Revised Code, a refundable credit may be claimed against the tax imposed on a domestic insurance company under section 5725.18 of the Revised Code. The credit shall be claimed in the calendar year specified in the certificate issued by the authority.

...On or before the first Monday of May in each year, the superintendent of insurance shall certify to the treasurer of state the amount of the capital and surplus of each domestic insurance company having capital divided into shares and the surplus of each domestic insurance company not having capital divided into shares, or the amount equal to eight and one-third times the gross amount of premiums received by any such...

...A fraternal benefit society organized and existing under the laws of this state that issues insurance certificates, but is exempt from Chapter 3921. of the Revised Code, shall for the purpose of sections 5725.01 to 5725.26 of the Revised Code, file annually with the superintendent of insurance a report of valuation of its certificates, in the form required by the superintendent of fraternal benefit societies subject ...

...surer of state shall maintain a list of taxes levied by section 5725.18 of the Revised Code and certified for assessment by the superintendent of insurance pursuant to section 5725.20 of the Revised Code. (B) The treasurer of state shall collect, and the taxpayer shall pay, all taxes levied under section 5725.18 of the Revised Code and any interest applicable thereto. Payments may be made electronically or by any ...

...which the interest accrues. (A) When taxes levied by section 3737.71, 5707.03, or 5725.18 of the Revised Code are assessed as the result of a tax return being filed late, the treasurer of state or tax commissioner, as appropriate, shall add interest to the taxes due. The interest shall accrue from the first day of the month following the last day on which such taxes were required to be paid, had the assessme...

...und to a domestic insurance company any taxes imposed by section 3737.71 of the Revised Code or amounts imposed under this chapter that are overpaid, paid illegally or erroneously, or paid on any illegal, erroneous, or excessive assessment, with interest thereon as provided by section 5725.221 of the Revised Code, shall be filed with the superintendent of insurance, on the form prescribed by the superintendent, withi...

...Taxes, interest, and penalties may be recovered from a delinquent domestic insurance company or person in an action brought in the name of the state in the court of common pleas of Franklin county or any county in which such company or person has an office or place of business, and such court shall have jurisdiction of such action regardless of the amount involved. The attorney general, on request of the superintende...

...(A) The taxes levied by section 5725.18 of the Revised Code and collected pursuant to this chapter shall be paid into the state treasury to the credit of the general revenue fund. (B) The taxes levied by section 5707.03 of the Revised Code on the value of shares in and capital employed by all dealers in intangibles shall be paid into the state treasury to the credit of the general revenue fund.

...in lieu of all other taxes on the other property and assets of such domestic insurance company, except as provided in division (B) of this section, and of all other taxes, charges, and excises on such domestic insurance companies, and all other taxes on the stockholders, members, or policyholders of such company by reason of their stock or other interest in such insurance company, except as to annuities or the right ...

...n lieu of all other taxes on the other property and assets of such institution or dealer, except personal property taxable under Chapter 5711. of the Revised Code and leased, or held for the purpose of leasing, to others if the owner or lessor of the property acquired it for the sole purpose of leasing it to others. For reports required to be filed under section 5725.14 of the Revised Code in 2003 and thereaf...

...tion 5733.42 of the Revised Code. (2) "Tax assessed under this chapter" means, in the case of a dealer in intangibles, the tax assessed under sections 5725.13 to 5725.17 of the Revised Code and, in the case of a domestic insurance company, the taxes assessed under sections 5725.18 to 5725.26 of the Revised Code. (3) "Taxpayer" means a dealer in intangibles or a domestic insurance company subject to a tax assessed u...

...Upon the issuance of a tax credit certificate by the director of development, a refundable credit granted by the tax credit authority under section 122.17 of the Revised Code may be claimed against the tax imposed by section 5725.18 of the Revised Code. The credit shall be claimed in the calendar year specified in the certificate issued by the director of development.

... among claimants, and the amount of any application or other fees to be charged in connection with a recovery. (F) The director of development services is authorized to charge reasonable application and other fees in connection with the administration of tax credits authorized by this section and sections 5726.54, 5729.16, and 5733.58 of the Revised Code. Any such fees collected shall be credited to the tax incenti...

...) There is allowed a credit against the tax imposed by section 5725.18 of the Revised Code for an insurance company subject to that tax that is a certificate owner of a rehabilitation tax credit certificate issued under section 149.311 of the Revised Code. The credit shall equal twenty-five per cent of the dollar amount indicated on the certificate, but the amount of the credit allowed for any company for any y...

...There is allowed a credit against the tax imposed by section 5725.18 of the Revised Code for an insurance company subject to that tax that holds the rights to a tax credit certificate issued under section 122.09 of the Revised Code. The credit shall equal the dollar amount indicated on the certificate. The credit shall be claimed in the calendar year specified in the certificate or the ensuing calendar year and in th...

... (B) There is allowed a nonrefundable tax credit against the tax imposed by section 5725.18 of the Revised Code for a domestic insurance company that is allocated a credit issued by the executive director of the Ohio housing finance agency under section 175.16 of the Revised Code. The credit equals the amount allocated to such company for the calendar year and reported by the designated reporter on the form prescri...

... (B) There is allowed a nonrefundable tax credit against the tax imposed by section 5725.18 of the Revised Code for a domestic insurance company that is allocated a credit issued by the executive director of the Ohio housing finance agency under section 175.17 of the Revised Code. The credit shall equal the amount allocated to such company for the calendar year and reported by the designated reporter on the form pr...

...ment period that was the subject of the application for the certificate under that section or for the ensuing calendar year. For a credit issued during the July application round each year, the credit may also be claimed for the preceding calendar year. A taxpayer applying a credit for the preceding calendar year shall file an amended return or apply that amendment on the taxpayer's original return, for that year. ...

...procedure for calculating the amount of tax imposed by section 5725.18 of the Revised Code that is due under this chapter, a taxpayer shall claim any credits and offsets against tax liability to which it is entitled in the following order: The credit for an insurance company or insurance company group under section 5729.031 of the Revised Code; The credit for eligible employee training costs under section 5725....

... the sale or lease of tangible personal property or the performance of services, and "gross income" has the same meaning as in section 61 of the Internal Revenue Code and includes income from transactions between the captive finance company and other members of its affiliated group. A person that has not been in continuous existence for the two taxable years preceding the current taxable year qualifies as a "capti...

...l governments, there is hereby levied a tax on each financial institution for the privilege of doing business in this state. A financial institution is subject to the tax imposed under this chapter for each calendar year that the financial institution conducts business as a financial institution in this state or otherwise has nexus in or with this state under the Constitution of the United States on the first day of ...

... October, the reporting person for each taxpayer shall make a report in writing to the tax commissioner, in such form as the commissioner prescribes, and shall remit to the commissioner the amount of tax shown to be due on the report. The remittance shall be made payable to the treasurer of state. (2) An annual report shall be signed by the president, vice-president, secretary, treasurer, general manager, superint...