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...efore tax year 2009, personal property leased to a public utility or interexchange telecommunications company as defined in section 5727.01 of the Revised Code and used directly in the rendition of a public utility service as defined in division (P) of section 5739.01 of the Revised Code shall be listed and assessed at the same percentage of true value in money that such property is required to be assessed by s...

...In listing investments of the kind defined in division (D) of section 5701.06 of the Revised Code, as of the date prescribed by section 5711.03 of the Revised Code, the amount of income yield of each such investment, during the fiscal or calendar year used by the trustee or fiduciary of each such investment shall be stated in dollars and cents and the assessment thereof shall be at the amount of such income yield. Th...

...When it has been determined by a board of revision, the tax commissioner, the board of tax appeals, or a court that taxable property which has been listed and assessed for the purpose of taxation as real property for any year should not have been assessed as such, or when any taxable property previously listed and assessed as real property has been removed from the auditor's list of taxable real property or the real ...

...The tax commissioner shall assess all taxable property, except property listed in returns which the county auditor is required to assess as his deputy, and shall list and assess all such property which is not returned for taxation, and for that purpose shall have and exercise all powers vested in him by law for the purpose of administering any law which he is required to administer. The action of the assessor in asse...

...On or before the second Monday of August, annually, the tax commissioner shall transmit to the county auditor of each county the preliminary assessment certificates pertaining to the auditor's county of taxpayers having taxable property in more than one county. The commissioner shall transmit to the auditor any amended assessment certificate issued by the commissioner, and the auditor shall transmit to the commission...

...Except for taxable property concerning the assessment of which an appeal has been filed under section 5717.02 of the Revised Code, the tax commissioner may, within the time limitation in section 5711.25 of the Revised Code, and shall, upon application filed within such time limitation in accordance with the requirements of this section, finally assess the taxable property required to be returned by any taxpayer, fina...

...No taxpayer shall fail to make a return within the time prescribed by law, or as extended pursuant to section 5711.04 of the Revised Code, nor fail to list in a return or disclose on an accompanying balance sheet or in other information filed with the return any item of taxable property the taxpayer is required to list in the return under sections 5711.01 to 5711.36 of the Revised Code. If any taxpayer fails to mak...

...Whenever the assessor imposes a penalty prescribed by section 5711.27 or 5725.17 of the Revised Code, the assessor shall send notice of such penalty assessment to the taxpayer by mail. If the notice also reflects the assessment of any property not listed in or omitted from a return, or the assessment of any item or class of taxable property listed in a return by the taxpayer in excess of the value or amount thereof a...

...If any corporation uses the rights and powers granted by its charter to prevent the assessment of the shares of its resident shareholders on the basis of income yield, as provided in sections 5711.01 to 5711.36 of the Revised Code, by permitting its gains and profits to accumulate instead of being distributed, or by paying exorbitant salaries to its officers and employees, the tax commissioner, upon finding such to b...

...If any corporation, incorporated under the laws of this state or authorized to do business in this state, declares a nominal dividend or distribution for the purpose of enabling its shareholders residing in this state to return its shares as productive investments, the tax commissioner, upon finding such to be the fact, shall assess against such corporation a penalty equal to a tax of two mills on the dollar of the t...

...Whenever the assessor assesses any property not listed in or omitted from a return, or whenever the assessor assesses any item or class of taxable property listed in a return by the taxpayer in excess of the value or amount thereof as so listed, or without allowing a claim duly made for deduction from the net book value of accounts receivable, or depreciated book value of personal property used in business, so listed...

...(A)(1) Upon receipt of a preliminary, amended, corrected, or final assessment certificate requiring a correction to his records and tax lists and duplicates, the county auditor shall compute the amount of taxes represented by each deficiency or excess item therein contained at the rate of taxation in effect in the year for which such assessment is made. He shall enter all deficiency items comprised in such assessme...

...(A)(1) When a county treasurer receives a certificate from a county auditor pursuant to division (A) of section 5711.32 of the Revised Code charging the treasurer with the collection of an amount of taxes due as the result of a deficiency assessment, the treasurer shall immediately prepare and mail a tax bill to the taxpayer owing such tax. The tax bill shall contain the name of the taxpayer; the taxable value, ta...

...Annually, on or before the fifteenth day of January, the following lists, verified by the president, vice-president, secretary, or the treasurer of the corporation required to file such list, shall be filed with the department of taxation, in such form as the tax commissioner prescribes: (A) Each corporation incorporated under the laws of this state for profit shall file with the department a list of its shareholder...

...Each trust or other unincorporated issuer of a money market investment sold to residents of this state in the preceding calendar year shall file a list of all its investors in the same manner as required by section 5711.34 of the Revised Code. No issuer of a money market investment, whether incorporated or unincorporated, that fails to comply with the requirements of this section or section 5711.34 of the Revised Co...

...If necessary, the board of county commissioners may provide for the appointment of a resident deputy county treasurer and fix his compensation.

...The tax commissioner or the county auditor shall place on file in alphabetical order all returns of taxable property and all assessment certificates, and shall carefully preserve them until five years after the taxes represented thereby have been paid, or litigation concerning the same has been settled, when he shall destroy them.

...As used in this Chapter, "taxes" means all general taxes levied against personal property pursuant to section 5709.01 of the Revised Code and all taxes levied pursuant to section 5707.04 of the Revised Code. All personal property subject to taxation shall be liable to be seized and sold for taxes. The personal property of a deceased person in the hands of an executor or administrator shall be liable for any tax due ...

...Each person presenting a return for filing for taxation with a county auditor pursuant to sections 5711.01 to 5711.36 of the Revised Code, shall at the time of presenting the same for filing or within ten days of the last date for presentment for filing as required by law or as extended under authority of law, pay to the county treasurer of the county in which the same is presented for filing, on account of tax...

...The office of the county treasurer shall be kept open for the collection of advance payments of taxes during the entire time that the county auditor is accepting returns under section 5711.04 of the Revised Code, and for the collection of taxes charged on the general personal or classified tax duplicate from the time of delivery of the duplicate until the twenty-first day of September. When any such tax is paid at t...

...(A) The county auditor shall preserve all receipts showing the advance payment of taxes. At the time of making up the general personal and the classified tax list and duplicate, the auditor shall enter thereon opposite the name of each person charged with taxes the amount of the advance payment made, as a credit against the amount of taxes charged thereon against such person. (B) Each person charged with taxes on a ...

...When, because of an emergency as defined in section 323.17 of the Revised Code or because of a delay in delivery of the preliminary assessment certificates pursuant to section 5711.25 of the Revised Code the county auditor determines that the general personal or classified property tax duplicate cannot be delivered to the county treasurer by the time fixed by section 319.29 or 319.34 of the Revised Code, such deliver...

...legal interests therein, and permanent leasehold estates of each person named therein having such real estate in such county. Such notice of lien and such lien shall not be valid as against any mortgagee, pledgee, purchaser, or judgment creditor whose rights have attached prior to the date of such delivery. Such duplicate shall be kept by the county recorder in the official records, and indexed under the name o...

...If the payment of a general personal property or classified property tax is not made on or before the last day prescribed by section 5719.03 or 5719.031 of the Revised Code, an interest charge shall begin to accrue and shall continue until all charges are paid, except that no interest charge shall accrue for or in the month in which such payment was due under such section or under the circumstances and for the ...

...After the award by a taxing district of any contract let by competitive bid and prior to the time the contract is entered into, the person making a bid shall submit to the district's fiscal officer a statement affirmed under oath that the person with whom the contract is to be made was not charged at the time the bid was submitted with any delinquent personal property taxes on the general tax list of personal propert...