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...te shall file a monthly report with the tax commissioner in accordance with rules adopted by the tax commissioner under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code.

...Whenever the tax commissioner discovers any cigarettes which are being shipped, or which have been shipped, or transported in violation of section 2927.023 of the Revised Code, or discovers cigarettes, subject to the taxes levied under section 5743.02, 5743.021, 5743.024, or 5743.026 of the Revised Code, and upon which the taxes have not been paid or that are held for sale or distribution in violation of any other pr...

...ealer or retail dealer fails to pay the tax levied under section 5743.02, 5743.021, 5743.024, or 5743.026 of the Revised Code as required by sections 5743.01 to 5743.20 of the Revised Code, and by the rules of the tax commissioner, or fails to collect the tax from the purchaser or consumer, the commissioner may make an assessment against the wholesale or retail dealer based upon any information in the commissioner's ...

...(A) If the tax commissioner finds that a wholesale dealer or retail dealer, liable for tax under sections 5743.01 to 5743.20 of the Revised Code, is about to depart from the state, remove the wholesale or retail dealer's property from the state, conceal the wholesale or retail dealer's person or property, or do any other act tending to prejudice, obstruct, or render wholly or partly ineffectual proceedings to coll...

...ther remedies for the collection of any taxes or fees legally due, the attorney general may issue a warrant directed to the sheriff of any county commanding said sheriff to levy upon and sell the goods and chattels of a delinquent dealer, without exemption, found within his jurisdiction, for the payment of the amount of such delinquency, together with the added penalties, interest, and the cost of executing the warr...

...No person shall have in the person's possession packs of cigarettes not bearing the stamps required to be affixed thereto as required by Chapter 5743. of the Revised Code.

...No person shall sell cigarettes without there having been first affixed to each individual package the stamp required by section 5743.03 of the Revised Code or with the stamp having been affixed to the package in violation of section 5743.21 of the Revised Code.

...No person shall possess packs of cigarettes not bearing the stamps required by Chapter 5743. of the Revised Code, or bearing stamps that have been affixed in violation of section 5743.21 of the Revised Code, when the total number of the cigarettes exceeds one thousand two hundred.

...ith the intent to avoid payment of the tax imposed by this chapter, when the total number of cigarettes in the aggregate exceeds one thousand two hundred during any twelve-month period. (B) Any vending machine containing cigarettes which do not have affixed the stamps provided for by sections 5743.03 and 5743.04 of the Revised Code shall be seized and forfeited to the state in accordance with Chapter 2981. of...

...h false entry for the inspection of the tax commissioner with intent to evade the tax levied under section 5743.02, 5743.021, 5743.024, or 5743.026 of the Revised Code.

...counterfeit any stamp prescribed by the tax commissioner under section 5743.03 of the Revised Code, or cause to be falsely or fraudulently made, forged, altered, or counterfeited any such stamp, or possess any counterfeiting device, or knowingly and willfully utter, publish, pass, or tender as true, any such false, altered, forged, or counterfeited stamp, or use more than once any such stamp for the purpose of evadin...

...(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...

...der division (B) of this section or the tax commissioner under divisions (C) and (F) of this section. On dissolution of a partnership by death, the surviving partner may operate under the license of the partnership until expiration of the license, and the heirs or legal representatives of deceased persons, and receivers and trustees in bankruptcy appointed by any competent authority, may operate under the license of ...

...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 consumer...

... 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...

...ge, or other consumption subject to the tax levied under section 5743.32, 5743.321, 5743.323, or 5743.324 of the Revised Code, shall, on or before the fifteenth day of the month following receipt of such cigarettes, file with the tax commissioner a return showing the amount of cigarettes acquired, together with remittance of the tax thereon. No such person shall transport within this state, cigarettes that have a who...

...business hours to the inspection of the tax commissioner, and shall be preserved for a period of four years, unless the commissioner, in writing, consents to their destruction within that period, or by order requires that they be kept for a longer period. No person shall refuse to provide such records and documents to the tax commissioner or any person employed by the commissioner for the purpose of inspecting such ...

... dealer, shall sell or dispose of any untaxed motor fuel without the prior written permission of the tax commissioner. Upon investigation, the commissioner shall determine whether any tax shall be imposed on the transaction. Full and complete documentation shall be submitted by the seller to the commissioner upon the commissioner's request. Failure to obtain prior approval from the commissioner regarding the sale or...

...Whenever the tax commissioner discovers any motor fuel subject to the taxes levied under Chapter 5735. of the Revised Code and upon which the taxes have not been paid, the commissioner may seize and take possession of the motor fuel. The motor fuel shall be forfeited to the state, and the commissioner, within a reasonable time thereafter, may sell the forfeited motor fuel. The commissioner shall collect the taxes du...

...Whenever the tax commissioner discovers any motor fuel at a retail service station subject to the taxes levied under this chapter and upon which the taxes have not been paid, the commissioner may padlock the pumps of the retail service station until the taxes are paid.

...(A) If the tax or any portion of the tax imposed by this chapter, whether determined by the tax commissioner or the motor fuel dealer, is not paid on or before the date prescribed in section 5735.06 of the Revised Code, interest shall be collected and paid in the same manner as the tax upon the unpaid amount, computed at the rate per annum prescribed by section 5703.47 of the Revised Code, from the date prescribed fo...

...his chapter to file reports or pay the tax levied by this chapter who fails to do so within the time prescribed may be liable for an additional charge not exceeding the greater of ten per cent of the person's tax liability for that month or fifty dollars. The tax commissioner may remit all or a portion of the additional charge and may adopt rules relating to the remission of all or a portion of the charge. I...

...(A) If the tax commissioner finds that any person liable for tax under this chapter is about to depart from the state, remove property from the state, conceal self, or conceal the person's property, or do any other act tending to prejudice, obstruct, or render wholly or partly ineffectual proceedings to collect the tax, unless proceedings are commenced without delay, or if the commissioner believes that the coll...

...The tax commissioner shall refund to dealers or to any person assessed motor fuel tax amounts paid illegally or erroneously or paid on an illegal or erroneous assessment. Applications for refund shall be filed with the tax commissioner, on the form prescribed by the commissioner, within four years from the date of the illegal or erroneous payment. No person shall file a claim for the tax on fewer than one hundred gal...

...n this state, motor fuel upon which the tax imposed by this chapter has not first been paid or liability for the tax imposed by this chapter on the motor fuel has not accrued to the holder of an unrevoked motor fuel dealer's license, the commissioner may make an assessment against the person under section 5735.12 or 5735.121 of the Revised Code for the motor fuel taxes imposed by this chapter. The assessment may be b...

...be the total penalty assessed. (D) The tax commissioner may reduce or remit a penalty assessed under this section. (E) In addition to the penalties prescribed by division (A) of this section, the commissioner may provide to the internal revenue service any information the commissioner obtains or creates in conjunction with this section.

...e made to any person for the motor fuel tax paid on any motor fuel that is lost or destroyed through leakage, fire, explosion, lightning, flood, tornado, windstorm, or any other cause, except theft, evaporation, shrinkage, and unaccounted-for losses. No refund shall be authorized or ordered under this section for any single loss of less than one hundred gallons, nor except upon notice to the tax commissioner within t...

...n who uses any motor fuel, on which the tax imposed by this chapter has been paid, for the purpose of operating stationary gas engines, tractors not used on public highways, unlicensed motor vehicles used exclusively in intraplant operations, vessels when used in trade, including vessels when used in connection with an activity that constitutes a person's chief business or means of livelihood or any other vessel used...

...l receive a refund for Ohio motor fuel taxes paid on fuel lost by a retail dealer through shrinkage and evaporation. This refund shall be one per cent of the Ohio motor fuel taxes paid on fuel purchased during any semiannual period ending the thirtieth day of June or the thirty-first day of December. In order to receive a refund, the retail dealer shall file with the tax commissioner, within one hundred twent...

...n who uses any motor fuel, on which the tax imposed by section 5735.05 of the Revised Code has been paid, for the purpose of operating a transit bus shall be reimbursed in the amount of the total tax paid on motor fuel so used by public transportation systems providing transit or paratransit service on a regular and continuing basis within the state, or by a person contracting with such a system and providing such se...

...hapter is indebted to the state for any tax or fee administered by the tax commissioner that is paid to the state or to the clerk of courts pursuant to section 4505.06 of the Revised Code, or any charge, penalty, or interest arising from such a tax or fee, the amount refundable may be applied in satisfaction of the debt. If the amount refundable is less than the amount of the debt, it may be applied in partial satisf...

...e liability to the state for the excise tax imposed under the motor fuel laws of this state on such motor fuel has been assumed by the seller, and that said excise tax has already been paid or will be paid by the seller when the same becomes payable. The documentation also shall set forth the name and address of the purchaser, the number of gallons of motor fuel sold, the price paid for or the price per gallon of the...

...who purchases motor fuel upon which the tax has been paid to this state and who sells the same outside this state for use outside this state or who uses the same on highways or waters outside this state and pays a tax on such use or sells the same to the United States government or any of its agencies may be reimbursed in the amount of such tax as provided in this chapter. All applications for refund of the tax paid ...

...(A) The tax commissioner may examine, during the usual business hours of the day, the records, books, invoices, storage tanks, and any other equipment of any motor fuel dealer, retail dealer, exporter, terminal operator, purchaser, aviation fuel dealer, or transporter pertaining to motor fuel received, sold, shipped, or delivered, to determine whether the taxes imposed by this chapter have been paid and to verify the...

...to collect or cause to be repaid to the taxpayer or to any other person, either directly or indirectly, any refund of such tax without being entitled to the same; (2) Engage in business in the state as a motor fuel dealer without holding an unrevoked license to engage in such business; (3) Engage in business in the state as a retail dealer without holding an unrevoked license to engage in such business; (4) Engage...

...information that, in the opinion of the tax commissioner, is necessary for the proper administration of this chapter. (B) A terminal or bulk plant, the carrier, and the person that received the motor fuel shall retain a copy of the shipping document for a period of four years after the date of receipt of the fuel and shall provide a copy of the document to the tax commissioner upon request. (C) While transporting m...

... the state treasury the gasoline excise tax fund. All investment earnings of the fund shall be credited to the fund. Revenue credited to the fund under section 5735.051 from the tax levied under section 5735.05 of the Revised Code shall be distributed to municipal corporations, counties, and townships as provided in divisions (A)(1), (2), and (3) of this section. (1) The amount distributed to each municipal corpor...

...Wherever a municipal corporation is on the line of the state highway system as designated by the director of transportation as an extension or continuance of the state highway system, seven and one-half per cent of the amount paid to any municipal corporation pursuant to sections 4501.04 and 5735.27 of the Revised Code shall be used by it only to construct, reconstruct, repave, widen, maintain, and repair such highwa...

...purposes of enforcing this chapter, the tax commissioner, in accordance with section 5743.45 of the Revised Code, may delegate any investigation powers of the commissioner to any 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 this chapter. Upon such a delegation in accordance with that section, the provisions of that...

...continues operating that business, the taxes and any interest and penalties imposed under this chapter that arose prior to the date of sale or discontinuation become due and payable immediately. Within fifteen days after the date of the sale or discontinuation of the business, the motor fuel dealer shall make a final return and provide written notification to the tax commissioner of the sale or discontinuation...

..., required to file reports and to remit taxes imposed under this chapter fails for any reason to file such reports or pay such taxes, any employees of the person having control or supervision of, or charged with the responsibility of, filing reports and making payments, or any officers or trustees of the person responsible for the execution of the person's fiscal responsibilities, are personally liable for the ...