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...g any extensions of time granted by the tax commissioner, a penalty of fifty dollars per month, not to exceed five hundred dollars, may be imposed for each month or fraction of a month elapsing between the due date of the report, including any extensions, and the date the report was filed. The penalty under this section for failing to file a report required by section 5727.08 of the Revised Code shall be paid into th...

... returns, statements, or reports to the tax commissioner under sections 5727.01 to 5727.62 of the Revised Code shall file therewith, in such form as the commissioner prescribes, an affidavit subscribed and sworn to by a person or officer having knowledge of the facts setting forth that such public utility has not, during the preceding year, except as permitted by sections 3517.082, 3599.03, and 3599.031 of the Revise...

...n who appears before the department of taxation, on its order, as to the appraisal of property in any taxing district, shall be allowed and paid out of the treasury of the proper county, if an officer of any such taxing district, the person's actual and necessary traveling expenses, which shall be itemized and sworn to by the person who incurred the expense, and if other than any such officer, the person shall ...

...ent, secretary, receiver, accounting or tax officer, servant, or agent of a railroad company shall refuse to attend before a lawful board of appraisers and assessors when required to do so, or refuse to submit to the inspection of such board any books or papers of such company in his possession, custody, or control, or refuse to answer any question put to him by the board or upon its order concerning the business, ...

...fuse to attend before the department of taxation when required to do so, or refuse to bring with the officer, employee, or agent and submit for inspection any books or papers of such person in the officer's, employee's, or agent's possession, custody, or control, or refuse to answer any questions put to the officer, employee, or agent concerning 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.

...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...

...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...

...f the recognized valuation included the tax value loss for the school district or joint vocational school district; (c) The state education aid offset for fiscal year 2010 and fiscal year 2011 equals the greater of the state education aid offset calculated for that fiscal year under divisions (A)(1)(a) and (b) of this section or the state education aid offset calculated for fiscal year 2009. (2) For fiscal years 20...

...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 th...

...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; (...

...rer of state shall refund the amount of tax paid under section 5727.81 or 5727.811 of the Revised Code that was paid illegally or erroneously, or paid on an illegal or erroneous assessment, or any penalty assessed with respect to such taxes. A natural gas distribution company, an electric distribution company, or a self-assessing purchaser shall file an application for a refund with the tax commissioner on a form pre...

...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...

... that person is not registered with the tax commissioner as an electric distribution company or a natural gas distribution company. (B) Each person required to register under division (A) of this section shall register prior to distributing electricity or natural gas to a meter of an end user in this state or to an unmetered location in this state. The tax commissioner shall prescribe the form of the registration ap...

...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.

...As used in sections 5728.02 to 5728.14 of the Revised Code: (A) "Motor vehicle" means everything on wheels that is self-propelled, other than by muscular power or power collected from electric trolley wires and other than vehicles or machinery not designed for or employed in general highway transportation, used to transport or propel persons or property over a public highway. (B) "Commercial car" means any m...

...ode, every person who is liable for the tax imposed by section 5728.06 of the Revised Code on the operation of a commercial car or a commercial tractor that is, or is to be, operated or driven upon a public highway in two or more jurisdictions shall cause to be filed 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 ...

... 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...

...ate shall refund the amount of fuel use taxes overpaid, paid illegally or erroneously, or paid on any illegal or erroneous assessment, or any penalty assessed with respect to such taxes. 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 overpayment, the illegal or erroneous payment, or the payment of the illegal or erro...