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...company shall file a separate report as prescribed by the tax commissioner segregating gross receipts from operating as an electric company and gross receipts from operating as a natural gas company, for the period ending April 30, 2000. (B) Natural gas companies and combined companies shall claim one-sixtieth of the credit calculated under division (A) of this section on each return filed under division (A) of sect...

...s, shall be subject to an annual excise tax, as provided by sections 5727.31 to 5727.62 of the Revised Code, for the privilege of owning property in this state or doing business in this state during the twelve-month period next succeeding the period upon which the tax is based. The tax shall be imposed against each such public utility that, on the first day of such twelve-month period, owns property in this state or ...

...tement in such form as the commissioner prescribes and shall pay any amount due. (B)(1) Annually, on or before the fifteenth day of October of the current year, each public utility whose estimated excise taxes for the current year as based upon the statement required to be filed in that year by division (A) of this section are one thousand dollars or more shall file with the commissioner a report, in such form as ...

... each succeeding year electronically as prescribed by division (C) of this section. If the tax in each of two consecutive years is less than fifty thousand dollars, the public utility is relieved of the requirement to remit taxes electronically for the year that next follows the second of the consecutive years in which the tax certified is less than fifty thousand dollars, and is relieved of that requirement for e...

...The name and post-office address of the president, secretary, auditor, treasurer, and superintendent or general manager; (5) The name and post-office address of the chief officer or managing agent of the company in this state; (6) The amount of the excise taxes paid or to be paid with the reports made during the current calendar year as provided by section 5727.31 of the Revised Code; (7) In the case of telegra...

...For the purpose of computing the excise tax imposed by section 5727.24 or 5727.30 of the Revised Code, the entire gross receipts actually received from all sources for business done within this state are taxable gross receipts, excluding the receipts described in divisions (B), (C), and (D) of this section. The gross receipts for the tax year of each telegraph company shall be computed for the period of the first day...

...Any reduction in the excise tax on gross receipts paid by a public utility resulting from the exclusion of sales to other public utilities for resale from the determination of gross receipts under sections 5727.32 and 5727.33 of the Revised Code shall be reflected in the rates charged the ultimate consumers in any rate determination affecting such consumers after October 11, 1961.

...first Monday of November, annually, the tax commissioner may assess an excise tax against a public utility subject to the excise tax under section 5727.30 of the Revised Code. The tax shall be computed by multiplying the taxable gross receipts as determined by the commissioner under section 5727.33 of the Revised Code by six and three-fourths per cent in the case of pipe-line companies, and four and three-fourths per...

...mated payment on or before the due date prescribed in division (B) of section 5727.31 of the Revised Code, the commissioner shall impose a penalty in the amount of fifteen per cent of the unpaid amount, and the commissioner shall issue an assessment for the unpaid amount and penalty. Unless a timely petition for reassessment is filed under section 5727.47 of the Revised Code, the attorney general shall proceed to col...

...One hundred per cent of all excise taxes and penalties collected under sections 5727.01 to 5727.62 of the Revised Code shall be credited to the general revenue fund.

... manner used by the commissioner in the preliminary or amended preliminary assessment certified under section 5727.23 of the Revised Code. If an additional objection seeking a reduction in taxable value in excess of the reduction stated in the original petition is properly and timely raised with respect to an assessment issued under section 5727.23 of the Revised Code, the petitioner shall state the total amount o...

...ication was received, but shall not be spread over more than the next ten ensuing installment due dates. If any portion of the overpayment has not been refunded or credited by the tenth such tax installment due date after the date on which the notification was received, the auditor immediately shall refund that portion. (2) The tax commissioner may certify to a county auditor, in writing, that a public utility is no...

...The tax commissioner, on application by a public utility, may extend to the public utility a further specified time, not to exceed thirty days, within which to file any report or statement required by this chapter to be filed with the commissioner, except reports required by sections 5727.24 to 5727.29 of the Revised Code. A public utility must file such an application, in writing, with the commissioner on or before ...

...ed by law to pay an excise or franchise tax or fee. Each month he shall file with the tax commissioner a certified report showing all such new public utilities, the increase or decrease of the capital stock or the dissolution of existing public utilities, and such other information as the commissioner requires. For the purpose of obtaining the necessary information, the secretary of state or the commissioner shall ha...

...hall extend only to the five years next preceding the year in which such inquiry is made. Upon the determination and certification by the commissioner, a tax, fee, or assessment shall be charged for collection from such public utility at the rate provided by law for the years when such tax, fee, or assessment was omitted, or erroneously charged so that the total tax, fee, or assessment paid and to be paid for such ye...

...rts and pay excise or franchise fees or taxes in accordance with law.

...The taxes, fees, and penalties provided by this chapter that are remitted to the tax commissioner may be recovered by an action brought in the name of the state in the court of common pleas of Franklin county, or of any county in which such public utility is doing business, or in which the line of any railroad company is located, and such court of common pleas shall have jurisdiction of the action regardless of the a...

...x or fee for ninety days after the time prescribed by law for making such report or return or paying such tax or fee, the tax commissioner shall certify such fact to the secretary of state. The secretary of state shall thereupon cancel the articles of incorporation of any such public utility which is organized under the laws of this state by appropriate entry upon the margin of the record thereof, or cancel by prope...

...o make a report or return or to pay any tax or fee.

...hree dollars for services and a housing trust fund fee of three dollars pursuant to section 317.36 of the Revised Code. If a domestic public utility applying for reinstatement has not previously designated an agent upon whom process may be served as required by section 1701.07 of the Revised Code, such public utility shall at the time of reinstatement and as a prerequisite thereto designate an agent in accordance wi...

...hall be computed at the rate per annum prescribed by section 5703.47 of the Revised Code; and if it appears that any public utility has failed to make or file any report or return, a mandatory injunction may be issued against such public utility, its officers, directors, and managing agents, as such enjoining them from the transaction of any business within this state, other than acts incidental to liquidation ...

...attorney general, on the request of the tax commissioner, shall commence an action in quo warranto in the court of appeals of the county in which such public utility has its principal place of business to forfeit and annul its privileges and franchises. If the court is satisfied that any such public utility is in default, it shall render judgment ousting such public utility from the exercise of its privileges and fr...

...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...

...ewith, 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 Revised Code, directly or indirectly paid, used or offered, consented, or agreed to pay or use any of its money or property for or i...

...xpenses are audited and paid, upon the presentation of a certificate from the department certifying to the fact of such attendance.