Ohio Revised Code Search

...No person engaged in the business of trafficking in cigarettes or in the business of distributing tobacco products, vapor products, or both shall fail to post and keep constantly displayed in a conspicuous place in the building where such business is carried on the license required by section 5743.15 or 5743.61 of the Revised Code, or sell or offer to sell cigarettes, cigarette wrappers, or a substitute for either, o...

...No person shall sell, exchange, give away, or offer to sell, exchange, or give away cigarettes, tobacco products, or a substitute for cigarettes or tobacco products, containing a substance foreign to tobacco and deleterious to health.

...ct to division (C) of this section, the tax commissioner, by journal entry, may delegate any investigation powers of the commissioner to an 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 those chapters. A separate journal entry shall be entered for each employee to whom that power is delegated. Each journal entry sha...

...The department of taxation shall cooperate with the attorney general, local law enforcement officials, and the appropriate agencies of the federal government and other states in the investigation and prosecution of violations of this chapter.

...cts or vapor distributor subject to the tax levied by section 5743.51 or 5743.511 of the Revised Code, on or before the twenty-third day of each month, shall file with the tax commissioner a return for the preceding month showing any information the tax commissioner finds necessary for the proper administration of this chapter, together with remittance of the tax due. The return and payment of the tax required by thi...

...he treasurer of state shall refund to a taxpayer any of the following: (1) Amounts imposed under this chapter that were paid illegally or erroneously or paid on an illegal or erroneous assessment; (2) Any tax paid on tobacco products or vapor products that have been sold or shipped to retail dealers, wholesale dealers, or vapor distributors outside this state, returned to the manufacturer, or destroyed by the t...

...ed Code fails to remit to the state any tax due under section 5743.51, 5743.511, 5743.62, 5743.621, 5743.63, or 5743.631 of the Revised Code, any of its employees having control or supervision of or charged with the responsibility of filing returns and making payments, and any of its officers, members, managers, trustees, or other persons who are responsible for the execution of the corporation's, limited liability c...

...products or vapor products on which the tax imposed by section 5743.51 and, if applicable, section 5743.511 of the Revised Code has not been paid unless the retail dealer is licensed under section 5743.61 of the Revised Code. Payment may be evidenced by invoices from distributors or vapor distributors stating the tax has been paid. (B) The tax commissioner may inspect any place where tobacco products or vapor prod...

...with the intent to avoid payment of the tax levied by section 5743.51, 5743.511, 5743.62, 5743.621, 5743.63, or 5743.631 of the Revised Code, when the wholesale price of the tobacco products or, in the case of a tax levied under section 5743.511, 5743.621, or 5743.631 of the Revised Code, the vapor products exceeds three hundred dollars, or when the vapor volume of the vapor products exceeds five hundred milliliters ...

...g a license issued by the department of taxation to engage in that business. (2) On the dissolution of a partnership by death, the surviving partner may operate under the license of the partnership until the expiration of the license, and the heirs or legal representatives of deceased persons, and receivers and trustees in bankruptcy appointed by any competent authority, may operate under the license of the person...

...al revenue fund of the state, an excise tax is hereby levied on the seller of tobacco products or vapor products in this state at one of the following rates: (1) For tobacco products other than little cigars or premium cigars, seventeen per cent of the wholesale price of the tobacco product whenever the tobacco product is delivered to a consumer in this state for the storage, use, or other consumption of such toba...

...the same purposes for which it levies a tax under section 5743.511 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners of a county that levies a tax under that section shall adopt a resolution levying a tax at the same rate on the sellers of tobacco products or vapor products, as applicable, whenever the tobacco product or vapor product is delivered to a consumer in the county in which that tax is levied for the s...

...al revenue fund of the state, an excise tax is hereby levied on the storage, use, or other consumption of tobacco products or vapor products at one of the following rates: (1) For tobacco products other than little cigars or premium cigars, seventeen per cent of the wholesale price of the tobacco product. (2) For little cigars, thirty-seven per cent of the wholesale price of the little cigars. (3) For premiu...

...the same purposes for which it levies a tax under section 5743.511 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners of a county that levies a tax under that section shall adopt a resolution levying a tax at the same rate on the use, consumption, or storage for consumption of tobacco products or vapor products, as applicable, by consumers in the county in which that tax is levied. The tax shall take effect on th...

...cco products or vapor products from the tax commissioner prior to transportation. The consent is not required if the applicable tax levied under section 5743.51, 5743.511, 5743.62, 5743.621, 5743.63, or 5743.631 of the Revised Code has been paid or will be paid by the distributor, vapor distributor, or seller. Application for the consent shall be in the form prescribed by the commissioner. Every person transportin...

... Revised Code to file a return with the tax commissioner shall fail to make the return or fail to pay the applicable taxes levied under section 5743.62 or 5743.63 of the Revised Code or fail to pay any lawful assessment issued by the tax commissioner.

...hapter, or any rule promulgated by the tax commissioner under authority of this chapter, for the violation of which no penalty is provided elsewhere, is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. (G) In addition to any other penalty imposed upon a person convicted of a violation of section 5743.112 or 5743.60 of the Revised Code who was the operator of a motor vehicle used in the violation, the court may su...

...(A) As used in this section, "combined tax liability" means the total of a taxpayer's income tax liabilities to all municipal corporations in this state for a taxable year. (B) Each taxpayer shall file a declaration of estimated tax report with, and remit estimated taxes to, the tax commissioner, payable to the treasurer of state, at the times and in the amounts prescribed in divisions (B)(1) to (4) of this sectio...

...Any taxpayer required by section 5745.03 or 5745.04 of the Revised Code to remit tax payments electronically shall remit such payments in the manner prescribed by the tax commissioner. Except as otherwise provided in this paragraph, the payment of taxes electronically does not affect a taxpayer's obligation to file reports under this chapter. A taxpayer required to remit taxes electronically may apply to the tax c...

...rch, June, September, and December, the tax commissioner shall certify to the director of budget and management the amount to be paid to each municipal corporation, as indicated on the declaration of estimated tax reports and annual reports received under sections 5745.03 and 5745.04 of the Revised Code, less any amounts previously distributed and net of any audit adjustments made by the tax commissioner. Not later t...

... 5733.04 of the Revised Code, that is a taxpayer under this chapter. (2) "Qualifying taxpayer" means a taxpayer, that, during any portion of the taxable year of a qualifying pass-through entity, holds a direct ownership interest in that qualifying pass-through entity. (B) There is hereby allowed a nonrefundable credit against the amount of tax payable under this chapter to a municipal corporation by a qualifying ta...

...If the tax required to be paid under this chapter or any portion of that tax is not paid on or before the date prescribed for its payment, interest shall be assessed, collected, and paid, in the same manner as the tax, upon such unpaid amount at the rate per annum prescribed by section 5703.47 of the Revised Code from the date prescribed for its payment until it is paid or until the day an assessment is issued under ...

... the circumstances indicated: (1) If a taxpayer required to file a report or remit tax as required by this chapter fails to make and file the report within the time prescribed, including any extensions of time granted by the tax commissioner, the tax commissioner may impose a penalty not exceeding the greater of fifty dollars per month or fraction of a month, not to exceed five hundred dollars, or five per cent per ...

...se of any underpayment of the estimated tax under section 5745.04 of the Revised Code, the tax commissioner may add to the tax an amount determined at the rate per annum prescribed by section 5703.47 of the Revised Code upon the amount of underpayment for the period of underpayment. (B) The amount of the underpayment shall be the excess of division (B)(1) over division (B)(2) of this section: (1) The amount of th...

...An application to refund to a taxpayer amounts paid under this chapter that are overpaid, paid illegally or erroneously, or paid on any illegal or erroneous assessment shall be filed with the tax commissioner within three years after the date of the illegal, erroneous, or excessive payment, or within any additional period allowed by division (A) of section 5745.12 of the Revised Code. The application shall be filed i...