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...No consumer shall refuse to pay the full and exact tax as required by sections 5739.01 to 5739.31, inclusive, of the Revised Code, or refuse to comply with such sections and the rules and regulations of the tax commissioner, or present to the vendor a false certificate indicating that the sale is not subject to the tax.

...No vendor shall fail to collect the full and exact tax as required by sections 5739.01 to 5739.31, inclusive, of the Revised Code, or fail to comply with such sections and the rules and regulations of the tax commissioner or, except as expressly authorized by such sections, refund, remit, or rebate, to a consumer, either directly or indirectly and, by whatsoever means, any of the tax levied by sections 5739.01 to 573...

...oner shall cause to be posted, at every public entrance of the vendor's premises, a notice identifying the vendor and the location and informing the public that the vendor's license is under suspension and that no retail sales may be transacted at that location. No person, other than the commissioner or the commissioner's agent or employee, shall remove, cover, or deface the posted notice. No license which has been s...

...(A)(1) No person shall engage in the business of selling at retail or sell at retail incidental to any other regularly conducted business without having a license therefor, as required by sections 5739.01 to 5739.31 of the Revised Code. (2) No person shall engage in the business of selling at retail as a transient vendor, as defined in section 5739.17 of the Revised Code, without first having obtained a license as ...

...y public official fails to maintain the records required by sections 5739.01 to 5739.31 of the Revised Code, or by the regulations issued by the tax commissioner or the treasurer of state, pursuant to said sections, or fails to comply with any law relating to the enforcement of said sections, the funds allocated to that county shall be withheld until such time as the public official has complied with such sections or...

...If any corporation, limited liability company, or business trust required to file returns and to remit tax due to the state under this chapter, including a holder of a direct payment permit under section 5739.031 of the Revised Code, fails for any reason to make the filing or payment, any of its employees having control or supervision of or charged with the responsibility of filing returns and making payments, or any...

...The levy of any excise, income, or property tax by the state or any political subdivision thereof shall not be construed as preempting the power of a county or transit authority to levy an additional sales tax pursuant to section 5739.021, 5739.023, or 5739.026 of the Revised Code. No tax levied by a board of county commissioners pursuant to section 5739.023 of the Revised Code shall become effective at any time whil...

...For 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 ...

...t report shall be made available to the public through the department of taxation's official internet web site. (C) The commissioner shall adopt rules that are necessary to administer this section.

...If the director of budget and management makes a certification to the tax commissioner under division (B) of section 131.44 of the Revised Code in a fiscal year, the commissioner shall designate the dates on which a sales tax holiday will be held in the following fiscal year. If the sales tax holiday will be held for three days, the commissioner shall designate the period that includes the first Friday of August and ...

...(A) Whoever violates section 5739.26 or 5739.29 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars for a first offense; for each subsequent offense such person shall, if a corporation, be fined not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars, or if an individual, or a member of a partnership, firm, or association, be fined not less than twenty-five nor more tha...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Agreement" means the streamlined sales and use tax agreement as amended and adopted on January 27, 2001, by the national conference of state legislatures' special task force on state and local taxation of telecommunications and electronic commerce, and unanimously adopted by the national conference of state legislatures' executive committee, and as subsequently amended and adopted by th...

...the participants of the meetings were a public body as defined in that section, except such meetings may be closed during any discussion pertaining to proprietary information of a person if the person so requests, personnel matters, competitive bidding, certification of service providers, or matters substantially similar to those described in division (G)(2), (3), or (5) of section 121.22 of the Revised Code. The s...

...Subject to section 5740.05 of the Revised Code, the tax commissioner may enter into the agreement with one or more states. In furtherance of the agreement, the commissioner may act jointly with other member states to establish standards for certification of service providers and automated systems, establish performance standards for multi-state sellers, and procure goods and services. The commissioner may take other ...

...(A) No provision of the agreement, in whole or in part, invalidates or amends the law of this state. Adoption of the agreement by this state does not amend the law of this state. Implementation in this state of any condition of the agreement, whether adopted before, at, or after membership of this state in the agreement, must be by the action of this state. (B) The agreement is an accord among individual cooperating...

... private sector study of the compliance cost on sellers and certified service providers to collect sales and use taxes for state and local governments under various levels of complexity. (G) Require each state to certify compliance with the terms of the agreement prior to becoming a member of the agreement, and to maintain compliance, under the laws of the member state, with all provisions of the agreement while a m...

...(A) The agreement binds and inures only to the benefit of this state and the other member states. No person, other than a member state, is an intended beneficiary of the agreement. Any benefit to a person other than a state is established by the law of this state and the other member states and not by the terms of the agreement. (B) Consistent with division (A) of this section, no person shall have any cause of acti...

...(A) A certified service provider is the agent of the seller with whom the certified service provider has contracted for the collection and remittance of sales and use taxes. As the seller's agent, the certified service provider is liable for sales and use taxes due each member state on all sales transactions it processes for the seller, except as provided in this section. A seller that contracts with a certified ser...

...he agreement or state law; (2) Provide records pursuant to section 149.43 of the Revised Code or to governmental agencies under disclosure laws; (3) Prevent the disclosure of confidential taxpayer information in accordance with Title LVII of the Revised Code; (4) Prevent, consistent with federal law, the disclosure or misuse of federal return information obtained under a disclosure agreement with the Internal Reve...

...(A) No cause of action shall accrue against a seller for over-collection of the taxes levied by section 5739.02, 5739.021, 5739.023, 5739.026, 5741.02, 5741.021, 5741.022, or 5741.023 of the Revised Code until the purchaser has provided written notice of the over-collection to the seller and the seller has had sixty days after the notice was mailed to respond. The notice must contain the information necessary to dete...