Ohio Revised Code Search

... or attempt to sell or distribute any untaxed motor fuel, except K-1 kerosene, at a retail service station. (B) A licensed motor fuel dealer that operates a bulk storage plant and also maintains at the same location a retail pump that is connected to a bulk storage tank is not subject to division (A) of this section, except that the licensed motor fuel dealer shall pay the tax on all motor fuel dispensed through the...

...r fuel within this state upon which the taxes imposed by this chapter are owed but have not first been paid to or reported by the holder of an unrevoked motor fuel dealer's license, or for which liability for those taxes has not accrued to the holder of an unrevoked motor fuel dealer's license. (B) No person shall evade or attempt to evade in any manner a motor fuel tax imposed by this chapter. No person shall aid o...

...(A) The tax commissioner, for the purposes of administering this chapter, shall issue an exporter license to a person that receives motor fuel in this state and exports that fuel out of this state and that demonstrates to the tax commissioner's satisfaction that the person is an exporter. (B) To obtain an exporter license, a person shall file, under oath, an application with the commissioner in such form as the com...

...olds an unrevoked license issued by the tax commissioner to engage as a terminal operator. A person desiring to be a terminal operator shall file with the commissioner an application sworn to under oath. The application shall include the following: (1) The name under which the terminal operator will transact business in this state; (2) The location, including street number address, of the terminal operator's princi...

...y motor fuel dealer shall file with the tax commissioner a surety bond of not less than five thousand dollars, but may be required by the tax commissioner to submit a surety bond equal to three months' average tax liability, on a form approved by and with a surety satisfactory to the commissioner, upon which the motor fuel dealer shall be the principal obligor and the state shall be the obligee, conditioned upon the ...

...(A) The tax commissioner may revoke the license of a retail dealer in the following circumstances: (1) The retail dealer sells or attempts to sell any motor fuel upon which any motor fuel tax imposed by this chapter has not been paid; (2) The retail dealer attempts to evade any motor fuel tax imposed by this chapter; (3) The retail dealer violates any provision of this chapter. (B) The commissioner shall ...

...(A) The tax commissioner may revoke an exporter's license in the following circumstances: (1) An exporter licensed under section 5735.026 of the Revised Code purchases, for export, motor fuel in this state exclusive of the motor fuel tax, and subsequently diverts or causes the motor fuel to be diverted to a destination in this state or any state other than the originally designated state; (2) The exporter is no...

...ction 5735.063 of the Revised Code, the tax commissioner may revoke the license of the terminal operator. The commissioner shall notify the terminal operator in writing of such revocation in the manner provided in section 5703.37 of the Revised Code. The commissioner also may cancel the license of any terminal operator upon sixty days' notice mailed to the last known address of the terminal operator if the commiss...

...Out of revenue from the tax levied by section 5735.05 of the Revised Code, the treasurer of state shall place to the credit of the tax refund fund established by section 5703.052 of the Revised Code amounts equal to the refunds certified by the tax commissioner pursuant to sections 5735.13, 5735.14, and 5735.142 of the Revised Code. The treasurer of state shall then transfer seven-eighths per cent of the revenue to t...

...as a fact that, of the revenue from the tax imposed by section 5735.05 of the Revised Code, one per cent is attributable to the operation of motor vehicles upon waters within the boundaries of this state. Of this amount, seven-eighths shall be credited to the waterways safety fund and shall be used for the purposes of sections 1547.71 to 1547.77 of the Revised Code, and one-eighth shall be credited to the wildlife bo...

...ed in the state treasury the motor fuel tax administration fund for the purpose of paying the expenses of the department of taxation incident to the administration of the motor fuel laws. After the treasurer of state credits the tax refund fund out of tax receipts as required by section 5735.051 of the Revised Code, the treasurer of state shall transfer to the motor fuel tax administration fund each month an amount n...

...h motor fuel dealer shall file with the tax commissioner a report for the preceding calendar month on a form prescribed by the commissioner for that purpose. The report shall include the following information: (1) An itemized statement of the number of gallons of all motor fuel received during the preceding calendar month by such motor fuel dealer, which has been produced, refined, prepared, distilled, manufactured...

...(A) If the tax commissioner so requires, the dealer shall remit each monthly tax payment electronically as prescribed by division (B) of this section. The commissioner shall notify each dealer required to remit taxes electronically of the dealer's obligation to do so. Failure by the commissioner to notify a dealer subject to this section to remit taxes electronically does not relieve the dealer of its obligation t...

...h terminal operator shall file with the tax commissioner a report for the preceding calendar month on forms prescribed by or in a form acceptable to the tax commissioner. The report shall include the following information: (1) The physical inventory of all motor fuel on hand in each terminal in this state on the first and last day of the preceding calendar month; (2) An itemized statement of the number of gallons o...

...f the Revised Code, shall file with the tax commissioner a report for the preceding calendar month on forms prescribed by or in a form acceptable to the tax commissioner. The report shall include the following: (1) An itemized statement of the number of gallons of all motor fuel received during the preceding calendar month for export by the licensed exporter; (2) An itemized statement of the number of gallons of a...

...The tax commissioner shall publish on the department's web site a list of all motor fuel dealers, aviation fuel dealers, and retail dealers that have valid licenses or registrations issued under this chapter. The list shall contain the name, address, and federal identification number or other motor fuel tax account number of each such person and, for motor fuel dealers, the number of gallons of motor fuel upon which ...

...ry transporter shall register with the tax commissioner on a form prescribed by the commissioner. Each transporter shall report all deliveries of motor fuel made to points in this state to the commissioner on forms prescribed by the commissioner. Such reports shall cover monthly periods, shall be submitted within thirty days after the close of the month covered by the report, shall show the name and address o...

...Whenever the tax commissioner discovers any motor fuel at a retail service station subject to the taxes levied under this chapter and upon which the taxes have not been paid, the commissioner may padlock the pumps of the retail service station until the taxes are paid.

...(A) If the tax or any portion of the tax imposed by this chapter, whether determined by the tax commissioner or the motor fuel dealer, is not paid on or before the date prescribed in section 5735.06 of the Revised Code, interest shall be collected and paid in the same manner as the tax upon the unpaid amount, computed at the rate per annum prescribed by section 5703.47 of the Revised Code, from the date prescribed fo...

...(A) If the tax commissioner finds that any person liable for tax under this chapter is about to depart from the state, remove property from the state, conceal self, or conceal the person's property, or do any other act tending to prejudice, obstruct, or render wholly or partly ineffectual proceedings to collect the tax, unless proceedings are commenced without delay, or if the commissioner believes that the coll...

...The tax commissioner shall refund to dealers or to any person assessed motor fuel tax amounts paid illegally or erroneously or paid on an illegal or erroneous assessment. 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 illegal or erroneous payment. No person shall file a claim for the tax on fewer than one hundred gal...

...n this state, motor fuel upon which the tax imposed by this chapter has not first been paid or liability for the tax imposed by this chapter on the motor fuel has not accrued to the holder of an unrevoked motor fuel dealer's license, the commissioner may make an assessment against the person under section 5735.12 or 5735.121 of the Revised Code for the motor fuel taxes imposed by this chapter. The assessment may be b...

...be the total penalty assessed. (D) The tax commissioner may reduce or remit a penalty assessed under this section. (E) In addition to the penalties prescribed by division (A) of this section, the commissioner may provide to the internal revenue service any information the commissioner obtains or creates in conjunction with this section.

...e made to any person for the motor fuel tax paid on any motor fuel that is lost or destroyed through leakage, fire, explosion, lightning, flood, tornado, windstorm, or any other cause, except theft, evaporation, shrinkage, and unaccounted-for losses. No refund shall be authorized or ordered under this section for any single loss of less than one hundred gallons, nor except upon notice to the tax commissioner within t...

...l receive a refund for Ohio motor fuel taxes paid on fuel lost by a retail dealer through shrinkage and evaporation. This refund shall be one per cent of the Ohio motor fuel taxes paid on fuel purchased during any semiannual period ending the thirtieth day of June or the thirty-first day of December. In order to receive a refund, the retail dealer shall file with the tax commissioner, within one hundred twent...