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...ncerning the organization, business, or property of such person.

...In case any tax or fee authorized by law to be charged and collected against any class of corporations or public utilities is declared invalid, such invalidity shall not affect the validity of the law, as applicable to any other class of corporations or public utilities.

...ualifying property shall be exempt from taxation for the tax year following the year in which the property is placed into service and for the ensuing four tax years.

...n company that is required to remit the tax imposed by section 5727.81 of the Revised Code. "Electric distribution company" does not include a person that donates all of the electricity the person generates to a political subdivision of the state. Division (A)(2) of this section shall not apply to a political subdivision in this state that is the end user of electricity that is donated to the political subdivision....

... as part of a package. (6) An annual application for registration as a self-assessing purchaser shall be made for each qualifying meter or location on a form prescribed by the tax commissioner. The registration year begins on the first day of May and ends on the following thirtieth day of April. Persons may apply after the first day of May for the remainder of the registration year. In the case of an applicant app...

...te and its local governments, an excise tax is hereby levied on every natural gas distribution company for all natural gas volumes billed by, or on behalf of, the company. Except as provided in divisions (C) or (D) of this section, the tax shall be levied at the following rates per MCF of natural gas distributed by the company through a meter of an end user in this state: MCF DISTRIBUTED TO AN END USER RATE PE...

...istribution company required to pay the tax imposed by section 5727.81 of the Revised Code shall file with the tax commissioner a return as prescribed by the tax commissioner and shall make payment of the full amount of tax due for the preceding month. The electric distribution company shall make payment to the tax commissioner unless required to remit the payment electronically as provided in section 5727.83 of the ...

...lf-assessing purchaser shall remit each tax payment electronically as prescribed by divisions (B) and (C) of this section. The tax commissioner shall notify each natural gas distribution company, electric distribution company, and self-assessing purchaser of the obligation to remit taxes electronically by using the Ohio business gateway, as defined in section 718.01 of the Revised Code, or another means of electro...

...ixed-rate levy" means any tax levied on property other than a fixed-sum levy. (12) "Fixed-rate levy loss" means the amount determined under division (G) of this section. (13) "Fixed-sum levy" means a tax levied on property at whatever rate is required to produce a specified amount of tax money or levied in excess of the ten-mill limitation to pay debt charges, and includes school district emergency levies charged...

..., furniture and fixtures, and telephone property tax value losses, as defined in section 5751.20 of the Revised Code, for the school district or joint vocational school district for the preceding tax year; (2) The inflation-adjusted property tax loss. The inflation-adjusted property tax loss equals the fixed-rate levy loss, excluding the tax loss from levies within the ten-mill limitation to pay debt charges, determ...

... and bond retirement fund revenues from property taxes and rollbacks based on 1997 actual revenues as presented in its 1999 tax budget, and in which electric companies and rural electric companies comprise over twenty per cent of its property valuation, shall receive one hundred per cent of its fixed-rate levy losses from electric company tax value losses certified under division (A) of this section in years 2002 to ...

...The tax commissioner shall administer sections 5727.80 to 5727.95 of the Revised Code and may adopt such rules as are necessary to administer those sections. Upon request of the tax commissioner, the public utilities commission shall assist the tax commissioner by providing information regarding any natural gas distribution company or electric distribution company that is subject to regulation by the commission.

...(A) The tax commissioner may make an assessment, based on any information in the commissioner's possession, against any natural gas distribution company, electric distribution company, self-assessing purchaser, or qualified end user that fails to file a return or pay any tax, interest, or additional charge as required by sections 5727.80 to 5727.95 of the Revised Code. When information in the possession of the tax...

...No assessment of the tax imposed by section 5727.81 or 5727.811 of the Revised Code shall be made by the tax commissioner more than four years after the date on which the return for the period assessed was due or filed, whichever date is later. This section does not bar an assessment when any of the following occur: (A) The party assessed failed to file a return as required by section 5727.82 of the Revised Code; (...

... self-assessing purchaser shall file an application for a refund with the tax commissioner on a form prescribed by the commissioner, within four years of the illegal or erroneous payment. On the filing of the application, the commissioner shall determine the amount of refund to which the applicant is entitled. If the amount is not less than that claimed, the commissioner shall certify that amount to the treasurer ...

...Every person liable for the tax imposed by section 5727.81 or 5727.811 of the Revised Code shall keep complete and accurate records of all electric and natural gas distributions and other records as required by the tax commissioner. The records shall be preserved for four years after the return for the taxes to which the records pertain is due or filed, whichever is later. The records shall be available for inspecti...

... prescribe the form of the registration application. The commissioner shall assign an identification number to each registration and notify the registrant of that number. The registration shall remain in effect until canceled in writing by the registrant upon the cessation of distributing electricity or natural gas to a meter of an end user in this state or to an unmetered location in this state, or until such regist...

...istribution company required to pay the tax imposed by section 5727.81 of the Revised Code and each natural gas distribution company required to pay the tax imposed by section 5727.811 of the Revised Code shall provide to its customers in this state the statement required by section 4933.33 of the Revised Code.

...(A) No natural gas distribution company, electric distribution company, or self-assessing purchaser shall fail to file any return or report required to be filed pursuant to section 5727.82 of the Revised Code, or file or cause to be filed any incomplete, false, or fraudulent return, report, or statement, or aid or abet another in the filing of any false or fraudulent return, report, or statement. (B) No person shall...

...Revised Code or any rule adopted by the tax commissioner under those sections, is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree on the first offense; on each subsequent offense, the person is guilty of a felony of the fourth degree.

... used to transport or propel persons or property over a public highway. (B) "Commercial car" means any motor vehicle used for transporting persons or property, wholly on its own structure on a public highway. (C) "Commercial tractor" means any motor vehicle designed and used to propel or draw a trailer or semi-trailer or both on a public highway without having any provision for carrying loads independently of...

...d annually with the tax commissioner an application for a fuel use permit to be furnished by the commissioner for that purpose. Each application for a fuel use permit for a commercial car or a commercial tractor shall contain any information the tax commissioner prescribes. (B) Upon receipt of the application, the tax commissioner shall issue to the person making the application a fuel use permit and any identif...

... that would otherwise be liable for the tax imposed by section 5728.06 of the Revised Code, that is, or is to be, operated or driven upon a public highway, may file an application with the tax commissioner for a single-trip fuel use permit. The application shall be based on rules adopted by the tax commissioner and shall include an amount estimated to be substantially equivalent to the fuel use tax liability that t...

...mmercial tractor that is subject to the tax imposed by section 5728.06 of the Revised Code on a public highway in two or more jurisdictions under either of the following circumstances: (1) Without a fuel use permit or single trip fuel use permit for such commercial car or commercial tractor. (2) With a suspended or surrendered fuel use permit for such commercial car or commercial tractor. (B) The judge or magis...

...The tax commissioner may enter into cooperative reciprocal agreements providing for the imposition of fuel use taxes on an apportionment or allocation basis with the proper authority of any state, any commonwealth, the District of Columbia, a state or province of a foreign country, or a territory or possession of the United States or of a foreign country. The agreement may provide for determining the base state for f...