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...ined companies shall be entitled to a refundable credit equal to the following: (1) For natural gas companies, the sum of the three payments of the excise tax on gross receipts made pursuant to section 5727.31 of the Revised Code on or before October 15, 1999, and on or before the first day of March and June 2000; (2) For combined companies, the sum of the three estimated payments of the excise tax on gross receipt...

...(C), (D), and (E) of this section, each public utility, except railroad companies, 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 tha...

...(A) Each public utility subject to the excise tax imposed by section 5727.30 of the Revised Code, annually, on or before the first day of August, shall file with the tax commissioner a statement 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 yea...

...(A) Any public utility subject to an excise tax imposed by section 5727.30 of the Revised Code whose tax equals or exceeds fifty thousand dollars shall make each payment required under division (B) of section 5727.31 of the Revised Code for the second ensuing and 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 thousan...

...in this state. (8) In the case of all public utilities subject to the tax imposed by section 5727.30 of the Revised Code, except telegraph companies: (a) The gross receipts of the company, actually received, from all sources for business done within this state for the year next preceding the first day of May, including the company's proportion of gross receipts for business done by it within this state in connect...

... receipts for the tax year of any other public utility subject to section 5727.30 of the Revised Code shall be computed for the period of the first day of May prior to the tax year to the thirtieth day of April of the tax year. (B) In ascertaining and determining the gross receipts of each public utility subject to this section, the following gross receipts are excluded: (1) All receipts derived wholly from inte...

... 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.

...oner 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 cent in the case of all other companies. The minimu...

...xpayer. (C) The commissioner shall refund taxes levied and payments made for the tax imposed by section 5727.30 of the Revised Code as provided in this section, but no refund shall be made to a taxpayer having a delinquent claim certified pursuant to this section that remains unpaid. The commissioner may consult the attorney general regarding such claims. (D) After receiving any excise tax annual statement for ...

...all be credited to the general revenue fund.

....471 of the Revised Code to issue any refund that is found to be due, the county auditor shall not issue a refund for any increase in the reduction in taxable value that is sought by a petitioner later than forty-five days after the petitioner files the original petition as required under division (A) of this section. (3) Any part of the tax that, under division (B)(2)(a) or (b) of this section, is not paid shall ...

...all do any one of the following: (1) Refund the full amount of the overpayment; (2) Refund a portion of the overpayment and prorate the remaining balance as a credit against future taxes that may be charged to the public utility; (3) Prorate the full amount of the overpayment as a credit against future taxes that may be charged to the public utility. (C)(1) The auditor shall have discretion as to which method to ...

...e 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 th...

...keep a correct list of all incorporated public utilities engaged in business within this state and required 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. Fo...

...If any public utility fails to make any report to the tax commissioner required by law, or makes such report and fails to report or reports erroneously any information essential to the determination of any amount, value, proportion, or other fact to be determined by the commissioner pursuant to law, which is necessary for the fixing of any fee, tax, or assessment, the commissioner shall determine such amount, value, ...

... business or voluntary dissolution of a public utility without filing the certificate provided for in section 1701.86 of the Revised Code, shall not exempt it from the requirements to make reports and pay excise or franchise fees or taxes in accordance with law.

... 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 amount involved. The attorney general, on request of the tax commissioner, shall institute such action in the court of common pleas of Franklin county or of any of such counties the commissioner directs...

...or return or to pay any tax or fee as a public utility fails to make such report or return or to pay any such tax 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 organ...

...No person shall exercise or attempt to exercise any powers, privileges, or franchises under articles of incorporation or certificate of authority after the same is canceled, as provided by section 5727.54 of the Revised Code, for failure to make a report or return or to pay any tax or fee.

...ollars 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 with suc...

... taxes, fees, or penalties due from any public utility have remained unpaid for a period of ninety days, or whenever any public utility has failed for a period of ninety days to make any report or return required by law, or to pay any penalty for failure to make or file such report or return, the attorney general, upon the request of the tax commissioner, shall file a petition in the court of common pleas in th...

...If any public utility fails to make and file the excise or franchise reports or returns required by law, or to pay the penalties provided by law for failure to make and file such reports or returns for a period of ninety days after the time prescribed by law, the 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 publi...

... be paid into the state general revenue fund. The penalty under this section for failing to file the report required by section 5727.31 of the Revised Code shall be deposited into the state treasury in the same manner as the tax, and the commissioner may collect the penalty by assessment pursuant to section 5727.38 of the Revised Code. The tax commissioner may abate this penalty in full or in part.

... action committee, legislative campaign fund, or organization that supports or opposes any such candidate or in any manner used any of its money or property for any partisan political purpose whatever, or for the reimbursement or indemnification of any person for money or property so used. Such forms of affidavit as the commissioner prescribes shall be attached to or made a part of the return, statement, or report r...

...A person 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...