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...orporation, school district, or special taxing district, and the officers thereof shall furnish information of any matters of record or on file in their respective offices, as is required by such auditor or member of a board. The department of taxation, or any person employed by the department for that purpose, shall have like powers, and in addition thereto may examine and make memorandums from any records, books, p...

...revision discovers the existence of any taxable property subject to be listed and assessed for taxation in another county, such auditor or board shall notify the tax commissioner and shall transmit to him by mail all the information they have concerning such property.

...The department of taxation, county auditors, and county boards of revision shall notify the prosecuting attorney of the proper county of any willful violation by persons, firms, partnerships, associations, or corporations of the laws relating to the assessment of property for taxation for which a penalty, either civil or criminal, is provided by law.

...tor in all matters relating to property taxation and shall prosecute and defend all actions and proceedings in any court in connection therewith to which the auditor or the county board of revision is a party, and in all respects act as the attorney of the auditor or the board. The prosecuting attorney shall, upon the request of the auditor or board, appear in any investigation or examination which either of them may...

...(A) The powers and duties of the tax commissioner, county auditors, treasurers, and prosecuting attorneys contained in sections 5715.27 to 5715.44 of the Revised Code apply to and shall be exercised and performed with respect to the recoupment charge imposed under sections 5713.33 to 5713.35 of the Revised Code. (B) As used in sections 5715.17 to 5715.22 and 5715.45 to 5715.50 of the Revised Code, "assessment" and "...

...asurer, or officer of the department of taxation shall fail to perform any duty imposed upon such officer by law with reference to the assessment, collection, settlement, or distribution of personal or classified property taxes on or before the date specified by law for the performance thereof.

...on thereof is entered at other than its taxable value.

...raudulently value any real property for taxation except at its taxable value as provided by law.

... or upon the order of the department of taxation, or when called upon to testify in any court or proceeding, any information acquired in the exercise of the powers vested by the laws relating to taxation, or while claiming to exercise any such powers, as to the transactions, property, or business of any person, company, firm, corporation, association, or partnership. Whoever violates this section shall thereafter be ...

...ditor, county board of revision, or the tax commissioner, and no former or present deputy, assistant, or agent of the tax commissioner shall divulge, except in the performance of official duties or in any report to the county auditor, the county board of revision, or the tax commissioner, or when called upon to testify in any court or proceeding, any information acquired in the exercise of the powers vested therein b...

... board of revision or the department of taxation shall hold any position on or under any committee of a political party, or subscribe or pay any money or other thing of value to any person or organization for the purpose of promoting, defeating, or otherwise influencing any legislation, or circulate any intitiative or referendum petition. Whoever violates this section shall be removed from his office or employment.

...(A) A county board of revision may release a lien imposed on real property situated within the county if all the following apply: (1) The lien has been in existence for at least five years. (2) The lien is for a debt resulting from the cost of environmental cleanup of the property paid from state or local government funds. (3) The amount of the lien is equal to or greater than twelve times the fair market value of...

...The county recorder shall discharge a lien described in section 5715.70 of the Revised Code when the release described in that section is presented to the county recorder. In addition to the discharge on the records by the county recorder, the release shall be recorded in the official records kept by the county recorder. The county recorder is entitled to the fees for such recording as provided by section 317.3...

...(A) Whoever violates section 5715.45 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than five dollars for each day that elapses between the date specified by law for performance and the date when the duty is actually performed. (B) Whoever violates section 5715.46 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than one hundred nor more than one thousand dollars. (C) Whoever violates section 5715.48 of the Revised Code sh...

...f revision may be taken to the board of tax appeals within thirty days after notice of the decision of the county board of revision is mailed as provided in division (A) of section 5715.20 of the Revised Code. Such an appeal may be taken by the county auditor, the tax commissioner, or any board, legislative authority, public official, or taxpayer authorized by section 5715.19 of the Revised Code to file complaints ag...

...(A) As used in this chapter, "tax administrator" has the same meaning as in section 718.01 of the Revised Code. (B) Appeals from a final determination of a local board of tax review created under section 718.11 of the Revised Code may be taken by the taxpayer or the tax administrator to the board of tax appeals or may be taken by the taxpayer or the tax administrator to a court of common pleas as otherwise provided ...

...ppeals from final determinations by the tax commissioner of any preliminary, amended, or final tax assessments, reassessments, valuations, determinations, findings, computations, or orders made by the commissioner may be taken to the board of tax appeals by the taxpayer, by the person to whom notice of the tax assessment, reassessment, valuation, determination, finding, computation, or order by the commissioner...

...(A) A decision of the board of tax appeals on an appeal filed with it pursuant to section 5717.01, 5717.011, or 5717.02 of the Revised Code shall be entered of record on the journal together with the date when the order is filed with the secretary for journalization. (B) In case of an appeal from a decision of a county board of revision, the board of tax appeals shall determine the taxable value of the property whos...

...The board of tax appeals may consider and decide motions, including, but not limited to, motions in limine, before the board makes a decision on any matter.

... any decision and order of the board of tax appeals made pursuant to section 5703.021 of the Revised Code. Any such decision and order shall be conclusive upon all parties and may not be appealed. The proceeding to obtain a reversal, vacation, or modification of a decision of the board of tax appeals determining appeals from final determinations by the tax commissioner of any preliminary, amended, or final tax asses...

...ty is listed or sought to be listed for taxation. The appeal shall be taken by the filing of a notice of appeal with the court and with the board within thirty days after notice of the decision of the board is mailed as provided in section 5715.20 of the Revised Code. The county auditor and all parties to the proceeding before the board, other than the appellant filing the appeal in the court, shall be made appellees...

...7.04 of the Revised Code, liability for taxes upon the property in question and for nonpayment of taxes within the time required by law shall relate back to the date of the original valuation or determination, and liability for taxes and for any penalty and interest for nonpayment thereof within the time required by law shall be based upon the valuation as finally determined.

...As used in this Chapter, "taxes" means all general taxes levied against personal property pursuant to section 5709.01 of the Revised Code and all taxes levied pursuant to section 5707.04 of the Revised Code. All personal property subject to taxation shall be liable to be seized and sold for taxes. The personal property of a deceased person in the hands of an executor or administrator shall be liable for any tax due ...

...son presenting a return for filing for taxation with a county auditor pursuant to sections 5711.01 to 5711.36 of the Revised Code, shall at the time of presenting the same for filing or within ten days of the last date for presentment for filing as required by law or as extended under authority of law, pay to the county treasurer of the county in which the same is presented for filing, on account of taxes asse...

...r the collection of advance payments of taxes during the entire time that the county auditor is accepting returns under section 5711.04 of the Revised Code, and for the collection of taxes charged on the general personal or classified tax duplicate from the time of delivery of the duplicate until the twenty-first day of September. When any such tax is paid at the office of the county treasurer, the treasurer shall g...

...receipts showing the advance payment of taxes. At the time of making up the general personal and the classified tax list and duplicate, the auditor shall enter thereon opposite the name of each person charged with taxes the amount of the advance payment made, as a credit against the amount of taxes charged thereon against such person. (B) Each person charged with taxes on a general personal property or a classified ...

...general personal or classified property tax duplicate cannot be delivered to the county treasurer by the time fixed by section 319.29 or 319.34 of the Revised Code, such delivery may be delayed for up to thirty days. Upon making said determination, the auditor shall, by written notice, inform the treasurer of the fact and of the cause of such delay and of the day upon which such delivery will be made. Upon issuance o...

... Code, the county auditor shall make a tax list and duplicates thereof of all general personal and classified property taxes remaining unpaid, as shown by the county treasurer's books and the list of taxes returned as delinquent by the treasurer to the auditor at such settlement. The county auditor shall also include in such list all taxes assessed by the tax commissioner pursuant to law which were not charged...

...rsonal property or classified property tax is not made on or before the last day prescribed by section 5719.03 or 5719.031 of the Revised Code, an interest charge shall begin to accrue and shall continue until all charges are paid, except that no interest charge shall accrue for or in the month in which such payment was due under such section or under the circumstances and for the period described in division ...

...After the award by a taxing district of any contract let by competitive bid and prior to the time the contract is entered into, the person making a bid shall submit to the district's fiscal officer a statement affirmed under oath that the person with whom the contract is to be made was not charged at the time the bid was submitted with any delinquent personal property taxes on the general tax list of personal propert...

...y treasurer shall forthwith collect the taxes and penalty on the duplicate delivered to the treasurer by the auditor pursuant to section 5719.04 of the Revised Code and any interest thereon by any of the means provided by law. In addition to any other means provided by law, the treasurer may, after finding that the treasurer is unable to collect the full amount of delinquent taxes, interest, and penalties charged ag...

...rer to employ collectors to collect the taxes mentioned in section 5719.05 of the Revised Code or part thereof, and fix the compensation of such collectors, and provide for the reasonable and necessary expenses of such collectors in the pursuit of their duties, which shall be paid out of the county treasury. All such compensation and expenses shall be apportioned ratably by the county auditor among all the funds ent...

...The county auditor's delinquent tax list and the county treasurer's delinquent tax duplicate provided for in section 5719.04 of the Revised Code shall be cumulatively kept so that the amount of delinquent taxes and penalties charged against each person may be shown on the latest delinquent list and duplicate. Whenever the treasurer shall, by means of the remedies provided by law or otherwise, determine that any item ...

...Subject to the rules prescribed by the tax commissioner, a county treasurer charged with the collection of delinquent taxes may issue a certificate of release of the lien provided for in section 5719.04 of the Revised Code if the amount secured thereby has been paid or omitted from the delinquent tax list and duplicate pursuant to section 5719.06 of the Revised Code. The treasurer shall issue a certificate of partial...

...When taxes stand charged against a person and are not paid within the time prescribed by law for their payment, the county treasurer, in addition to any other remedy provided by law for the collection of taxes, shall enforce the collection of the taxes by a civil action in the name of the treasurer against the person for the recovery of the unpaid taxes. If the proper parties are before the court, it shall be suffici...

...When taxes are past due and unpaid, the county treasurer may distrain sufficient goods and chattels belonging to the person charged with such taxes, if such goods and chattels are found within the county, to pay the taxes remaining due, any penalty and interest thereon, and the costs that have accrued. Such treasurer shall immediately advertise in three public places in the township where the property was taken the t...

...asurer is unable to collect by distress taxes assessed upon a person, corporation, executor, administrator, guardian, receiver, accounting officer, agent, or factor, he shall apply to the clerk of the court of common pleas in his county at any time after the semiannual settlement of the treasurer with the county auditor, and the clerk shall cause notice to be served upon such corporation, executor, administrator, gua...

...ounty and state to which the delinquent taxpayer has removed, or in which he resides, with the date of his removal, if such treasurer is able to ascertain such fact. Immediately after the settlement with the auditor, the treasurer shall make and forward to the treasurer of the county to which a delinquent taxpayer has removed, or in which he resides, a statement of taxes assessed and not paid, specifying the value o...

...the county treasurer shall collect such taxes and per cent, plus any penalty and interest thereon, from the person so charged, for which services he shall be allowed the same fees as treasurers receive for collecting delinquent taxes by process, to be collected from the person against whom such taxes are charged.

...For the collection of all taxes, penalties, interest, and costs mentioned in section 5719.084 of the Revised Code, the county treasurers shall have the same powers given by any law for the collection of taxes. All moneys collected by any treasurer pursuant to such section shall be by him transmitted, in the safest and most convenient way, to the treasurer of the county to which such moneys belong. At the same time, h...

...county auditor, stands charged with any tax which remains unpaid, and receives no credit for the tax in such settlement, the treasurer may collect such tax, for his own use, at any time within one year after the settlement, either by distress and sale or by action in his own name, before any court having jurisdiction of such action.

...If a person charged with a tax has not sufficient property which the county treasurer can find to distrain to pay such tax, but has money or credit due or coming due him from any person within the state, known to the treasurer, or if such taxpayer has removed from the state or county, and has property, moneys, or credits due or coming due him in the state, known to the treasurer, in every such case, the treasurer sha...

...Taxes assessed on deposits in a financial institution shall be a lien on the deposit of each person as of the day fixed by the tax commissioner for the listing of such deposits. Taxes assessed on the shares of stock of an institution whose shares are withdrawable and defined as deposits in sections 5725.01 to 5725.26 of the Revised Code, shall be a lien on such shares as of the day fixed. Every financial institution ...

...Taxes assessed on the shares of stock of a dealer in intangibles shall be a lien on such shares from the first day of January in each year until they are paid. Each dealer in intangibles shall collect the taxes due from the owners of such shares and remit the same to the tax commissioner, who shall accept the remittance on behalf of the treasurer of state. The remittance shall be made payable to the treasurer o...

...A person against whom taxes are assessed as fiduciary for another person or an estate shall, upon payment of such taxes, have a claim against such person or estate for reimbursement of the taxes paid, with legal interest, and a lien upon all funds and property of such person or estate in his possession or which come into his possession. Such lien may be enforced in any appropriate manner.

... by any dwelling, upon which delinquent taxes, as defined in section 323.01 of the Revised Code, remain unpaid at the time a settlement is made between the county treasurer and auditor pursuant to division (C) of section 321.24 of the Revised Code. (2) "Delinquent vacant lands" means all lands that have been delinquent lands for at least one year and that are unimproved by any dwelling. (3) "County land reuti...

...st. Lands on which the only unpaid taxes are amounts claimed in good faith not to be due in complaints pending under section 5715.19 of the Revised Code and lands that are the subject of an application for exemption from taxation under section 5715.27 of the Revised Code shall not be included in the list. The delinquent land list and duplicate shall contain the description of the property and the na...

...the payment of delinquent real property taxes, from the date of the delivery of the delinquent land duplicate provided for in section 5721.011 of the Revised Code, until the final publication of the delinquent tax list and the delinquent vacant land tax list as provided in section 5721.03 of the Revised Code, in order that the name of any taxpayer appearing on either list, who prior to seven days before the first pub...

...oy collectors to collect the delinquent taxes on the list mentioned in section 5721.011 of the Revised Code, or part thereof, and fix the compensation of such collectors, and provide for the reasonable and necessary expenses of such collectors in the pursuit of their duties, which shall be paid out of the county treasury. All such compensation and expenses shall be apportioned ratably by the county auditor among all ...

...unty auditor shall compile a delinquent tax list consisting of all lands on the delinquent land list on which taxes have become delinquent at the close of the collection period immediately preceding the making of the delinquent land list. The auditor shall also compile a delinquent vacant land tax list of all delinquent vacant lands prior to the institution of any foreclosure and forfeiture actions against delinquent...

... expenses of publishing the delinquent tax lists, delinquent vacant land tax lists, and display notices provided for by sections 5719.04 and 5721.03 of the Revised Code shall be paid from the county treasury as county expenses are paid, and the board of county commissioners shall make provision for them in the annual budget of the county submitted to the budget commission, and shall make the necessary appropri...

...be attached to the published delinquent tax list by division (B)(3) of section 5721.03 of the Revised Code shall be in substance as follows: "DELINQUENT LAND TAX NOTICE The lands, lots, and parts of lots returned delinquent by the county treasurer of ___________________ county, with the taxes, assessments, interest, and penalties, charged against them agreeably to law, are contained and described in the followin...

...hall charge the lands and lots with the taxes, assessments, interest, and penalty if such taxes, assessments, interest, and penalty with which the lands and lots stand charged have not been paid in full before the tenth day of August of the next succeeding year. He shall also record and certify them as part of the delinquent list.

...In all proceedings relating to delinquent and forfeited lands and the certification and sale thereof, the county auditor shall act as the agent of the state.

...delinquent land list, for the amount of taxes, assessments, interest, and penalty charged prior to the delivery of such list. If the taxes have not been paid for one year after having been certified as delinquent, the state shall institute foreclosure proceedings in the manner provided by section 323.25, sections 323.65 to 323.79, or sections 5721.01 to 5721.28 of the Revised Code, unless a tax certificate respecting...

...hall enter upon the county auditor's tax list and county treasurer's duplicate, showing lands delinquent, the word "delinquent," and such entry on said tax list and duplicate is notice to all purchasers or other persons acquiring any right, title, or interest in or to the land pertinent to which such entry is made, of the prior right and lien of the state under sections 323.01 to 323.79 or...

...ransfer the entry "Delinquent" from the tax list and duplicate of one year to the tax list and duplicate of the next year, and if the land has been transferred, this entry "Delinquent" shall follow the land in the new owner's name, unless the taxes, assessments, interest, and penalty have been paid.

...icate, to be known as a delinquent land tax certificate, of each delinquent tract of land, city or town lot, or part of city or town lot contained in the delinquent land list, upon which the taxes, assessments, charges, interest, and penalties have not been paid, describing each tract of land or city or town lot in the same manner as it is described on the delinquent tax list and the amount of the taxes, assessments,...

... on receipt of a delinquent vacant land tax certificate or a master list of delinquent vacant tracts, a county prosecuting attorney shall institute a foreclosure proceeding under section 323.25, sections 323.65 to 323.79, or section 5721.18 of the Revised Code, or a foreclosure and forfeiture proceeding under this section. If the delinquent vacant land tax certificate or a master list of delinquent vacant tracts list...

...iture of property for delinquent land taxes by action in rem. County treasurer of __________ county, Ohio, Plaintiff vs. Parcels of land encumbered with delinquent tax liens, defendants" (B) Form of notice of foreclosure and forfeiture: "__________ court __________ county, Ohio Notice of foreclosure of liens and forfeiture of property for delinquent land taxes, by action in rem by county treasurer o...

...purchaser. Notwithstanding the minimum sales price provisions of divisions (A)(1) and (2) of this section to the contrary, a parcel sold pursuant to this section shall not be sold for less than the amount described in division (A)(2) of this section if the highest bidder is the owner of record of the parcel immediately prior to the judgment of foreclosure or a member of the following class of parties connected to th...

...the county auditor of a delinquent land tax certificate for, a delinquent vacant land tax certificate for, or a master list of delinquent vacant tracts or delinquent tracts that includes, any property on which is located a building subject to a receivership under section 3767.41 of the Revised Code, the prosecuting attorney may institute a foreclosure proceeding under section 5721.18 of the Revised Code or a foreclos...

...linquent land or delinquent vacant land tax certificate, or of a master list of delinquent or delinquent vacant tracts, shall institute a foreclosure proceeding under this section in the name of the county treasurer to foreclose the lien of the state, in any court with jurisdiction or in the county board of revision with jurisdiction pursuant to section 323.66 of the Revised Code, unless the taxes, assessments, charg...

...eclosure of liens for delinquent land taxes by action in rem. County treasurer of __________ county, Ohio, Plaintiff vs. Parcels of land encumbered with delinquent tax liens, defendants" (B) Form of notice of foreclosure: "__________ court __________ county, Ohio Notice of foreclosure of liens for delinquent land taxes, by action in rem by county treasurer of __________ county, Ohio Public notice ...

...urchaser. Notwithstanding the minimum sales price provisions of divisions (A)(1) and (2) of this section to the contrary, a parcel sold pursuant to this section shall not be sold for less than the amount described in division (A)(2) of this section if the highest bidder is the owner of record of the parcel immediately prior to the judgment of foreclosure or a member of the following class of parties connected to th...

...eclosure of liens for delinquent land taxes In the _______________ court of _____________, Ohio case no. in the matter of foreclosure of liens for delinquent land taxes county treasurer of _________________________, Ohio Plaintiff, vs. parcels of land encumbered with delinquent tax liens, Defendants. Whereas, judgment has been rendered against certain parcels of real property for taxes, assess...

...icient to pay in full the amount of the taxes, assessments, charges, penalties, and interest which are due and unpaid; the costs incurred in the foreclosure proceeding, the foreclosure and forfeiture proceeding, or both foreclosure and forfeiture proceedings which are due and unpaid; and, if division (B)(1) or (2) of section 5721.17 of the Revised Code is applicable, any notes issued by a receiver pursuant to divisio...

...ss shall be forfeited to the delinquent tax and assessment collection fund created under section 321.261 of the Revised Code, or in counties that have established a county land reutilization corporation fund under section 321.263 of the Revised Code, to the county land reutilization corporation fund.

...No issuance of a delinquent land tax certificate or delivery of a master list of delinquent tracts shall be invalid on account of its having been charged on the duplicate in a name other than that of the rightful owner, if in other respects it is sufficiently described on the duplicate, and the taxes, assessments, interest, and penalty set forth in said certificate or master list were due and unpaid at that time.

...If the taxes and assessments charged on land or lots are regularly paid in full, and such land is erroneously returned delinquent, and the land is listed on the delinquent land tax certificate record or master list of delinquent lands, the county auditor shall correct the duplicate and issue an abatement for penalties and interest added to such land on account of such error, the same as provided for in making errors ...

...The tax commissioner shall administer this chapter. If any act or proceeding required by such sections is not done or instituted within the time limited by such sections, the tax commissioner shall cause such act to be done or such proceeding instituted in the name of the officer whose duty it is to perform such act or to institute such proceeding, and the acts and proceedings of the tax commissioner in such behalf s...

...im of all moneys due him for delinquent taxes, assessments, interest, and penalty on any tract of land, or city or town lot, enter upon the tax duplicate and upon his copy of the delinquent land list "redeemed," and the county auditor shall, after each settlement period, revise the list of delinquent lands, or city or town lots, by writing "redeemed" in the margin provided for that purpose on all such tracts of land,...

...All delinquent land upon which the taxes, assessments, penalties, interest, or charges have become delinquent may be redeemed before foreclosure proceedings have been instituted by tendering to the county treasurer an amount sufficient, as determined by the court, to pay the taxes, assessments, penalties, interest, and charges then due and unpaid, and the costs incurred in any proceeding instit...

...f lots described in any delinquent land tax certificate or delinquent vacant land tax certificate, and a person having such right in that property fails to join in the redemption of such delinquent land tax or for any cause cannot be joined in any such redemption, the county auditor may entertain the application of so many of such persons as join in the application, and may make a certificate releasing such portion o...

...s returned delinquent for nonpayment of taxes or assessments, and placed on the duplicate of the succeeding year, and the owner or person liable to pay the taxes produces the receipt of the county treasurer for such taxes and assessments of the preceding year, the county auditor or treasurer shall not make the deduction from the duplicate, of such taxes, assessments, interest, and penalty but it shall be chargeable t...

...The tax commissioner shall provide the necessary documents to be used in carrying this chapter into effect, and the form of such documents shall be uniform throughout the state.

...tical index, direct and reverse, of all sales, after the completion of the annual sale, of all lots and lands, advertised for sale pursuant to section 5723.05 of the Revised Code. A certificate that all procedural steps have been complied with shall be made on a form as prescribed in section 5715.30 of the Revised Code, and said certificate shall bear the county auditor's signature with his official seal affixed the...

...0 to 5721.43 of the Revised Code: (A) "Tax certificate," "certificate," or "duplicate certificate" means a document that may be issued as a physical certificate, in book-entry form, or through an electronic medium, at the discretion of the county treasurer. Such document shall contain the information required by section 5721.31 of the Revised Code and shall be prepared, transferred, or redeemed in the manner prescri...

...of parcels selected for tax certificate sales, including the same information as is required to be included in the delinquent land list. Upon compiling the list of parcels selected for tax certificate sales, the county treasurer may conduct a title search for any parcel on the list. (B)(1) Except as otherwise provided in division (B)(3) of this section, when tax certificates are to be sold under section 5721.32 of ...

...of parcels selected for tax certificate sales. The lien for taxes, assessments, charges, penalties, and interest against a parcel stricken from the list thereafter may be foreclosed in the manner prescribed by section 323.25, sections 323.65 to 323.79, or section 5721.14 or 5721.18 of the Revised Code unless, prior to the institution of such proceedings against the parcel, the county treasurer restores the parcel to ...

...of parcels selected for tax certificate sales. The lien for taxes, assessments, charges, penalties, and interest against a parcel stricken from the list thereafter may be foreclosed in the manner prescribed by section 323.25, 5721.14, or 5721.18 of the Revised Code unless, prior to the institution of such proceedings against the parcel, the county treasurer restores the parcel to the list of parcels selected for tax ...

...) A county treasurer shall not sell any tax certificate respecting a parcel of delinquent land to which any of divisions (A)(1)(a) to (c) of section 5721.31 of the Revised Code apply. A certificate sold in violation of this section is void. (B) If the county treasurer discovers or determines that a certificate is void for any reason, the holder of the void certificate is entitled to a refund of the certific...

...(A) Upon the sale and delivery of a tax certificate, the tax certificate vests in the certificate holder the first lien previously held by the state and its taxing districts under section 5721.10 of the Revised Code for the amount of taxes, assessments, interest, and penalty charged against a certificate parcel, superior to all other liens and encumbrances upon the parcel described in the tax certificate, in the amou...

...(2) of this section, the purchaser of a tax certificate sold as part of a block sale pursuant to section 5721.32 of the Revised Code may transfer the certificate to any person, and any other purchaser of a tax certificate pursuant to section 5721.32 or 5721.33 of the Revised Code may transfer the certificate to any person, except the owner of the certificate parcel or any corporation, partnership, or associatio...

...er one year from the date shown on the tax certificate as the date the tax certificate was sold, and not later than the end of the certificate period, a certificate holder, except for a county land reutilization corporation, may file with the county treasurer a request for foreclosure, or a private attorney on behalf of the certificate holder may file with the county treasurer a notice of intent to foreclose, ...

...(A) Private attorney's fees payable with respect to an action under sections 5721.30 to 5721.46 of the Revised Code are subject to the following conditions: (1) The fees must be reasonable. (2) Fees exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars shall be paid only if authorized by a court order. (B)(1) Fees less than or equal to two thousand five hundred dollars shall be presumed to be reasonable. (2) If the private...

...(A) A private selling officer's fees payable with respect to an action under sections 5721.30 to 5721.46 of the Revised Code are subject to both of the following conditions: (1) The fees must be reasonable. (2) Fees exceeding five per cent of the sale price of the property, if such amount is greater than seven hundred fifty dollars, shall be paid only if authorized by a court order. (B)(1) Fees less than or equal ...

...(A) A title agent's or title insurance company's fees payable with respect to an action under sections 5721.30 to 5721.46 of the Revised Code are subject to the following conditions: (1) The fees must be reasonable. (2) Fees exceeding five hundred dollars shall be paid only if authorized by a court order. (B)(1) Fees less than or equal to five hundred dollars shall be presumed to be reasonable. (2) The terms of a...

...e certificate redemption prices of all tax certificates respecting that parcel. (B) At any time after payment to the county treasurer by the certificate holder to initiate foreclosure proceedings under section 5721.37 of the Revised Code, and before the filing of the entry of confirmation of sale of a certificate parcel, or the expiration of the alternative redemption period defined in section 323.65 of the ...

...he certificate redemption price for the tax certificate with the oldest lien against the parcel. Such a payment cancels that lien and voids the certificate. Upon receipt of the payment, the county treasurer shall make an entry to that effect in the tax certificate register, shall deposit the payment to the credit of the tax certificate redemption fund, and shall notify the certificate holder by ordinary fir...

...mains unsold after being offered at two sales, the officer conducting the sale shall report the results to the court or board of revision. (D) Upon the confirmation of a sale, the proceeds of the sale shall be applied as follows: (1) The fees and costs incurred in the proceeding filed against the parcel pursuant to section 5721.37 of the Revised Code shall be paid first, including attorney's fees of the certifica...

...dders, the officer who conducted the sales shall certify to the court or board of revision that the parcel remains unsold after two sales. The court or board of revision, by entry, shall order the parcel forfeited to the certificate holder who filed the request for foreclosure or notice of intent to foreclose under section 5721.37 of the Revised Code. The clerk of the court shall cer...

...he Revised Code shall apply even if the tax certificate is redeemed before the first day of the month following the date that the certificate is purchased.

...ate holder of the most recently issued tax certificate, by ordinary first class or certified mail or by binary means, that the certificate holder may purchase a subsequent tax certificate by paying all delinquent taxes on the related certificate parcel the lien against which has not been transferred by the sale of a tax certificate. During the thirty days after receiving the notice, the certificate holder posse...

... respect to which the person holds a tax certificate to encourage or demand payment before one month has elapsed following the purchase of the certificate. This division does not apply if the certificate holder is a county land reutilization corporation. (B) A county treasurer may bar any person who violates division (A) of this section from bidding at a tax certificate sale conducted by the...

...s to minerals, as separately listed and taxed from the fee of the soil pursuant to sections 5713.04, 5713.05, and 5713.06 of the Revised Code, have appeared on the delinquent land list and duplicate for five years and that taxes charged against those minerals or rights to minerals have become uncollectible, the county treasurer shall certify that determination, together with the reasons for the determination, to the ...

...d in an amount equal to the sum of the taxes, assessments, charges, penalties, and interest due and payable on the parcel subsequent to the delivery to the county prosecuting attorney of the delinquent land or delinquent vacant land tax certificate or master list of delinquent or delinquent vacant tracts containing the parcel, and prior to the transfer of the deed of the parcel to the purchaser following confi...

...e return of such nonproductive land to tax revenue generating status or the devotion thereof to public use. (B) Any county adopting a resolution under division (A) of this section may direct in the resolution that a county land reutilization corporation be organized under Chapter 1724. of the Revised Code to act on behalf of and cooperate with the county in exercising the powers and performing the duti...

...nt for sale, shall equal the sum of the taxes, assessments, charges, penalties, interest, and costs due on the parcel as determined under division (A)(2) of section 5721.19 of the Revised Code. Notwithstanding provisions to the contrary in division (A) of section 323.28 of the Revised Code, the minimum amount for which selected nonproductive lands subject to a foreclosure proceeding pursuant to section 323.25 of the ...

...(A) If, in any foreclosure proceeding initiated under section 323.25, sections 323.65 to 323.79, or section 5721.18 of the Revised Code, a county board of revision, court of common pleas, or municipal court issues a decree of foreclosure, order of sale, order of transfer, or confirmation of sale under section 5722.03 of the Revised Code that transfers a delinquent parcel to an electing subdivision, the electing...

...rfeiture sale no bid for the sum of the taxes, assessments, charges, penalties, interest, and costs due on the parcel as determined under division (A)(1)(a) of section 5723.06 of the Revised Code is received, the lands shall be sold to the electing subdivision. (B) If any nonproductive land that has been forfeited to the state and selected by an electing subdivision is advertised and offered for sale by the audito...

...Whenever nonproductive land is sold under section 5722.03 or 5722.04 of the Revised Code to an electing subdivision, no action shall be commenced, nor shall any defense be asserted, after one year from the date the deed conveying such land to the electing subdivision is filed for record, to question the validity of the title vested in the electing subdivision by such sale for any irregularity, informality, or omissio...

...the benefit of itself and of other taxing districts having an interest in the taxes, assessments, charges, interest, and penalties due and owing thereon at the time of the property's acquisition by the electing subdivision. In its administration of such nonproductive land as a part of a land reutilization program, the electing subdivision shall: (A) Manage, maintain, and protect, or tem...

...alue, it shall execute and deliver all agreements and instruments incident thereto. The electing subdivision may execute and deliver all agreements and instruments without procuring any approval, consent, conveyance, or other instrument from any other person or entity, including the other taxing districts entitled to share in the proceeds from the sale thereof. An electing subdivision may, for purposes of land...

...the county treasurer to reimburse those taxing districts to which the county auditor charged the costs of foreclosure pursuant to section 5722.03 of the Revised Code, or costs of forfeiture pursuant to section 5722.04 of the Revised Code. If the proceeds of the sale of the nonproductive lands, after making the payment required under this division, are not sufficient to reimburse the full amounts charged t...

...n electing subdivision shall keep all taxing districts having an interest in the taxes, assessments, charges, interest, and penalties on the real property acquired as part of the land reutilization program informed concerning the administration of its land reutilization program and may establish a committee comprised of a representative of each such taxing district. Each member of the committee shall be...

...e time of the conveyance and delinquent taxes, assessments, penalties, interest, and charges, and taxes and special assessments that are a lien on the real property at the time of the conveyance. Any costs, charges, or liens that have been assessed, certified, or placed under section 715.261, 743.04, or 6119.06 of the Revised Code with respect to real property acquired by or transferred to a county land reutili...

... the Revised Code, shall be exempt from taxation until sold.

...An electing subdivision may discontinue its land reutilization program at any time by repealing the ordinance or resolution enacted under section 5722.02 of the Revised Code, but it shall continue to be governed by the procedures set forth in this chapter concerning the administration and disposition of real property acquired as a part of its land reutilization program until all such lands have been sold or otherwise...

...ecting subdivision in the acquisition, maintenance, and disposal of each parcel and the parcel's share of the costs and expenses of the land reutilization program. The sale requirements of this section do not apply to real property acquired and held by a county land reutilization corporation.

...in section 1728.01 of the Revised Code, taxes on the land in the base period of the year immediately preceding the initial acquisition, as provided in section 1728.111 of the Revised Code, shall be determined by applying the land valuation as it existed in either the year preceding such initial acquisition, or in the next succeeding year after such nonproductive land is sold pursuant to section 5722.07 or 5722.13 of ...

...ditor shall remove from the auditor's tax lists and duplicates all taxes, assessments, charges, penalties, and interest that are due and payable on the land at the time of the sale in the same manner as if the property had been sold to any other buyer at the foreclosure or forfeiture sale. (B) The county auditor shall certify to an electing subdivision, other than a county land reutilizati...

... Revised Code, included in a delinquent tax list or delinquent vacant land tax list that has been certified delinquent within the meaning of section 5721.03 of the Revised Code, excluding any certificate parcel as defined in section 5721.30 of the Revised Code. (2) "Delinquent taxes" means the cumulative amount of unpaid taxes, assessments, recoupment charges, penalties, and interest charged against elig...

...A county land reutilization corporation is not liable for damages, or subject to equitable remedies, for breach of a common law duty, or for violation of sections 3737.87 to 3737.891 of the Revised Code or Chapter 3704., 3734., 3745., 3746., 3750., 3751., 3752., 6101., or 6111. of the Revised Code or any rule adopted or order, permit, license, variance, or plan approval issued under any of those chapters in con...

...(A)(1) Every tract of land and town lot, which, pursuant to foreclosure proceedings under section 323.25, sections 323.65 to 323.79, or section 5721.18 of the Revised Code, has been advertised and offered for sale on two separate occasions, not less than two weeks apart, and not sold for want of bidders, shall be forfeited to the state or to a political subdivision, school district, or county land reutilization...

...n forfeited to the state is exempt from taxation from the date of forfeiture, and shall be removed from the tax lists and duplicates until sold or redeemed and placed on the list of exempted property maintained pursuant to section 5713.08 of the Revised Code. No taxes or assessments shall be assessed against such property from the date the property is forfeited to the state to the date the property is sold pursuant ...

...ch the property is situated, all the taxes, assessments, penalties, interest, and costs incurred in the foreclosure or foreclosure and forfeiture proceedings under section 323.25, 5721.14, or 5721.18 or sections 323.65 to 323.79 of the Revised Code or in proceedings under this chapter that stand charged against the property at the time of such payment, the state shall relinquish to such fo...

... such corporation free and clear of all taxes, assessments, charges, penalties, interest, and costs. Subject to division (C) of this section, any subordinate liens shall be deemed fully and forever satisfied and discharged. Upon such request, the land is deemed sold by the state for no consideration. The county land reutilization corporation shall file the deed for recording. (C) When title to a parcel of land...

...If the taxes, assessments, charges, penalties, interest, and costs due on the forfeited lands have not been paid when the county auditor fixes the date for the sale of forfeited lands, the auditor shall give notice of them once a week for two consecutive weeks prior to the date fixed by the auditor for the sale, as provided in section 5721.03 of the Revised Code. The notice shall state that if the taxes, assessments,...

...son that is delinquent on real property taxes in this state; (b) For less than the total amount of the taxes, assessments, penalties, interest, and costs that stand charged against the land if the highest bidder is the owner of record of the parcel immediately prior to the judgment of foreclosure or foreclosure and forfeiture, or a member of the following class of parties connected to that owner: a member of that o...

...After the county auditor has closed his sale of forfeited lands, if any tract or parcel of land has been offered for sale as provided in section 5723.06 of the Revised Code and the same remains unsold, the auditor, at any time prior to his next sale, may again advertise the tract or parcel of land in the manner provided in section 5723.05 of the Revised Code and again offer it for sale.

... showing the total amount of delinquent taxes, assessments, penalties, interest, and costs, due and unpaid, for which the land had been forfeited to the state. Holders of title to such lands, together with holders of liens or mortgages of record, individually or collectively, shall file with the auditor a written exception to the intent of the state to take and hold such lands for conservation purpos...

...er such section, or in any processes of taxation, if such irregularity, informality, or omission does not abrogate the provision for due notice to holders of title, lien, or mortgage to such forfeited lands.

...ited to the state for the nonpayment of taxes, together with the taxes, assessments, charges, penalties, interest, and costs charged on them, agreeably to law, and the dates on which the lands, lots, and parts of lots will be offered for sale, are contained and described in the following list: (Here insert list, together with the day on which each parcel or groups of parcels will be offered for sale for the first t...

... greater sum than the amount of the tax, assessment, penalty, interest, and costs of sale, the county auditor shall charge the county treasurer separately in each case, in the name of the supposed owner, with the excess above such amount. The treasurer shall retain such excess in the treasury for the proper owner of the forfeited lands, and upon demand by such owner, within one year f...

...from all liens and encumbrances, except taxes and installments of special assessments and reassessments not due at the time of the sale, federal tax liens other than federal tax liens that are discharged in accordance with subsection (b) or (c) of section 7425 of the "Internal Revenue Code of 1954," 68A Stat. 3, 26 U.S.C. 1, as amended, and any easements and covenants running with the land that were created pri...

...Whenever real property in this state is sold under sections 5721.01 to 5721.28, inclusive, or 5723.01 to 5723.19, inclusive, of the Revised Code, no action shall be commenced, nor shall any defense be set up to question the validity of the title of the purchasers at such sale for any irregularity, informality, or omission in the proceedings relative to the foreclosure, forfeiture, or sale, unless such action is comme...

...sive, of the Revised Code, on which the taxes and assessments have been regularly paid previous to such sale, is void, and the purchaser, his heirs, or assigns, on producing the certificate of sale to the county auditor shall have his money refunded from the county treasury.

...Any person claiming any land, inlot, outlot, or part of lot, by virtue of a sale made under sections 5723.01 to 5723.19 of the Revised Code, as tenant in common with any other person, may apply for a partition in the manner provided by law for the partition of real estate. On presenting the county auditor's deed, the court, before which application for such partition is made, shall set off to such person the land cla...

...by such purchaser for said land at such tax sale, with all taxes afterward paid thereon by such purchaser, his heirs or assigns, with interest thereon, shall be a lien on said land, and may be enforced as any other lien.

...of any lands sold for the nonpayment of taxes, assessments, penalties, interest, and costs, or his heirs or assigns, recovers the land sold, by reason of the invalidity of such sale, such claimant, or his heirs or assigns, shall refund to the purchaser, or his heirs or assigns, the amount of the purchase price, with all other taxes, assessments, penalties, interest, and costs paid by such purchaser, or his heirs or ...

...ted to the state for the nonpayment of taxes, and shall pay such costs into the proper fund. In the case of the forfeiture sale of a parcel against which a foreclosure and forfeiture proceeding was instituted under section 5721.14 of the Revised Code, if the proceeds from the forfeiture sale are insufficient to pay the costs pertaining to such proceeding, the county auditor, at the next semiannual apportionmen...

...If a certificate issued to a purchaser of lands sold at a county auditor's sale has been mislaid, destroyed, or lost, and that fact is shown to the auditor, and no deed is executed therefor, the auditor being fully satisfied from evidence of the existence and loss of such certificate, on application for that purpose, shall make and execute to such purchaser a good and sufficient deed of conveyance for such tract of l...

...ing or buying such securities. (2) The tax commissioner shall adopt a rule defining "primarily" as that term is used in division (B)(1) of this section. (C) "Insurance company" includes every corporation, association, and society engaged in the business of insurance of any character, or engaged in the business of entering into contracts substantially amounting to insurance of any character, or of indemnifying or gu...

...tion shall return to the department of taxation between the first and second Mondays of March, annually, a report exhibiting in detail, and under appropriate heads, the resources and liabilities of such institution at the close of business on the thirty-first day of December next preceding. The report of each financial institution shall also show the aggregate balances of the taxable deposits of its depositor...

... the extent that such deposits are made taxable by section 5709.02 of the Revised Code, except: (A) Deposits belonging to the federal government or any instrumentality thereof; (B) Deposits to the extent of advances or advance payments made under any contract entered into by the federal government or any instrumentality thereof for the production of materials or supplies, or the furnishing of services pursuant to a...

...he third day of December, annually, the tax commissioner shall fix the day as of which the taxable deposits in financial institutions shall be listed and assessed. The day fixed shall be between the first and the thirtieth day of November, and the action of the commissioner shall be taken not more than three days after the day fixed. Notice of such action by the commissioner shall be immediately given to each financi...

...ection 5725.02 of the Revised Code, the tax commissioner shall ascertain and assess the amount of taxable deposits of such institution in each county in which the institution maintained an office for the receipt of deposits. Such amounts shall be assessed in the name of such financial institution except that the amounts of the taxable deposits wholly withdrawn from each such institution within the times mentioned in ...

...the first Monday of June, annually, the tax commissioner shall certify to the treasurer of state the assessment of each financial institution located in the state, showing separately the county in which the institution's principal office is located and the amount of taxable deposits of branches in each county other than that in which the principal office is located, and the commissioner shall certify to each county a...

...tution fails to make and furnish to the tax commissioner the report required by section 5725.02 of the Revised Code, within the time fixed by said section, the commissioner shall examine the books of the financial institution, and any officer or agent thereof under oath, and such other persons as he deems proper, and make such report. The board of tax appeals and the court of common pleas of the county shall exercise...

...The tax commissioner shall prescribe the forms of returns to be made by financial institutions and dealers in intangibles, consistently with this chapter, and may adopt rules, not inconsistent with this chapter, governing the making of returns, and may upon verified application of any such institution or dealer, and for good cause shown, extend the time, not to exceed thirty days, within which the return shall be mad...

...ho fails to make out and furnish to the tax commissioner the return required by section 5725.02 of the Revised Code, or willfully makes a false statement in such return shall forfeit not more than one hundred dollars, together with the costs and other expenses incurred by the commissioner in obtaining such statement.

...sted and assessed at its fair value and taxed only in the manner prescribed in sections 5725.01 to 5725.26, inclusive, of the Revised Code: (A) The shares of the stockholders in an incorporated dealer in intangibles having an actual place of business in this state, to the extent represented by capital employed in this state; (B) The shares of the stockholders, partners, or members of an unincorporated dealer in int...

...aler in intangibles shall return to the tax commissioner between the first and second Mondays of March, annually for return years prior to 2014, a report exhibiting in detail, and under appropriate heads, the dealer's resources and liabilities at the close of business on the thirty-first day of December next preceding, together with remittance made payable to the treasurer of state of the tax levied under divis...

...4 of the Revised Code shall include as taxable property all the shares of the dealer in intangibles, the capital stock of which is divided into shares, representing capital employed in this state, and the value of the property representing the capital, not divided into shares, employed in this state by such dealer in intangibles, according to the aggregate fair value of the capital, surplus, and undivided prof...

...) There is allowed a credit against the tax imposed by section 5707.03 and assessed under section 5725.15 of the Revised Code for a dealer in intangibles subject to that tax that is a certificate owner of a rehabilitation tax credit certificate issued under section 149.311 of the Revised Code. The credit shall equal twenty-five per cent of the dollar amount indicated on the certificate, but the amount of the cr...

...ly for return years prior to 2014, the tax commissioner shall certify to the treasurer of state the assessment of the shares or property representing capital, or apportionment of either, of each dealer in intangibles doing business in the state, showing separately the amount representing capital employed in each county. The treasurer of state shall place the amounts certified on the intangible property tax li...

...gibles fails to make and furnish to the tax commissioner the report required by section 5725.14 of the Revised Code, within the time fixed by that section, a penalty shall be imposed equal to the greater of fifty dollars per month or fraction of a month, not to exceed five hundred dollars, or five per cent per month or fraction of a month, not to exceed fifty per cent, of the tax required to be shown on the report, f...

...(A) An annual franchise tax on the privilege of being an insurance company is hereby levied on each domestic insurance company. In the month of May, annually, the treasurer of state shall charge for collection from each domestic insurance company a franchise tax in the amount computed in accordance with the following, as applicable: (1) With respect to a domestic insurance company that is a health insuring corpora...

...Upon the issuance of a tax credit certificate by the Ohio venture capital authority under section 150.07 of the Revised Code, a refundable credit may be claimed against the tax imposed on a domestic insurance company under section 5725.18 of the Revised Code. The credit shall be claimed in the calendar year specified in the certificate issued by the authority.

...On or before the first Monday of May in each year, the superintendent of insurance shall certify to the treasurer of state the amount of the capital and surplus of each domestic insurance company having capital divided into shares and the surplus of each domestic insurance company not having capital divided into shares, or the amount equal to eight and one-third times the gross amount of premiums received by any such...

...A fraternal benefit society organized and existing under the laws of this state that issues insurance certificates, but is exempt from Chapter 3921. of the Revised Code, shall for the purpose of sections 5725.01 to 5725.26 of the Revised Code, file annually with the superintendent of insurance a report of valuation of its certificates, in the form required by the superintendent of fraternal benefit societies subject ...

...surer of state shall maintain a list of taxes levied by section 5725.18 of the Revised Code and certified for assessment by the superintendent of insurance pursuant to section 5725.20 of the Revised Code. (B) The treasurer of state shall collect, and the taxpayer shall pay, all taxes levied under section 5725.18 of the Revised Code and any interest applicable thereto. Payments may be made electronically or by any ...

...which the interest accrues. (A) When taxes levied by section 3737.71, 5707.03, or 5725.18 of the Revised Code are assessed as the result of a tax return being filed late, the treasurer of state or tax commissioner, as appropriate, shall add interest to the taxes due. The interest shall accrue from the first day of the month following the last day on which such taxes were required to be paid, had the assessme...

...und to a domestic insurance company any taxes imposed by section 3737.71 of the Revised Code or amounts imposed under this chapter that are overpaid, paid illegally or erroneously, or paid on any illegal, erroneous, or excessive assessment, with interest thereon as provided by section 5725.221 of the Revised Code, shall be filed with the superintendent of insurance, on the form prescribed by the superintendent, withi...

...Taxes, interest, and penalties may be recovered from a delinquent domestic insurance company or person in an action brought in the name of the state in the court of common pleas of Franklin county or any county in which such company or person has an office or place of business, and such court shall have jurisdiction of such action regardless of the amount involved. The attorney general, on request of the superintende...

...(A) The taxes levied by section 5725.18 of the Revised Code and collected pursuant to this chapter shall be paid into the state treasury to the credit of the general revenue fund. (B) The taxes levied by section 5707.03 of the Revised Code on the value of shares in and capital employed by all dealers in intangibles shall be paid into the state treasury to the credit of the general revenue fund.

...f a domestic insurance company shall be taxed in the place where it is located, the same as the real estate of other persons is taxed, but the tax provided for by sections 5725.01 to 5725.26 of the Revised Code, shall be in lieu of all other taxes on the other property and assets of such domestic insurance company, except as provided in division (B) of this section, and of all other taxes, charges, and excises on suc...

...tion or dealer in intangibles shall be taxed in the place where it is located, the same as the real estate of persons is taxed, but the taxes provided for in Chapters 5725., 5726., 5733., and 5751. of the Revised Code shall be in lieu of all other taxes on the other property and assets of such institution or dealer, except personal property taxable under Chapter 5711. of the Revised Code and leased, or held fo...

...tion 5733.42 of the Revised Code. (2) "Tax assessed under this chapter" means, in the case of a dealer in intangibles, the tax assessed under sections 5725.13 to 5725.17 of the Revised Code and, in the case of a domestic insurance company, the taxes assessed under sections 5725.18 to 5725.26 of the Revised Code. (3) "Taxpayer" means a dealer in intangibles or a domestic insurance company subject to a tax assessed u...

...Upon the issuance of a tax credit certificate by the director of development, a refundable credit granted by the tax credit authority under section 122.17 of the Revised Code may be claimed against the tax imposed by section 5725.18 of the Revised Code. The credit shall be claimed in the calendar year specified in the certificate issued by the director of development.

...d equity investment in the hands of the taxpayer if such investment was a qualified equity investment in the hands of a prior holder. (B) There is hereby allowed a nonrefundable credit against the tax imposed by section 5725.18 of the Revised Code for an insurance company holding a qualified equity investment on the credit allowance date occurring in the calendar year for which the tax is due. The credit shall equal...

...) There is allowed a credit against the tax imposed by section 5725.18 of the Revised Code for an insurance company subject to that tax that is a certificate owner of a rehabilitation tax credit certificate issued under section 149.311 of the Revised Code. The credit shall equal twenty-five per cent of the dollar amount indicated on the certificate, but the amount of the credit allowed for any company for any y...

...There is allowed a credit against the tax imposed by section 5725.18 of the Revised Code for an insurance company subject to that tax that holds the rights to a tax credit certificate issued under section 122.09 of the Revised Code. The credit shall equal the dollar amount indicated on the certificate. The credit shall be claimed in the calendar year specified in the certificate and in the order required under sectio...

... (B) There is allowed a nonrefundable tax credit against the tax imposed by section 5725.18 of the Revised Code for a domestic insurance company that is allocated a credit issued by the executive director of the Ohio housing finance agency under section 175.16 of the Revised Code. The credit equals the amount allocated to such company for the calendar year and reported by the designated reporter on the form prescri...

... (B) There is allowed a nonrefundable tax credit against the tax imposed by section 5725.18 of the Revised Code for a domestic insurance company that is allocated a credit issued by the executive director of the Ohio housing finance agency under section 175.17 of the Revised Code. The credit shall equal the amount allocated to such company for the calendar year and reported by the designated reporter on the form pr...

...owed a nonrefundable credit against the tax imposed by section 5725.18 of the Revised Code for a domestic insurance company that is issued, or to which is transferred, a tax credit certificate under section 122.84 of the Revised Code. The credit equals the amount stated on the certificate and may be claimed for the calendar year that includes the investment period that was the subject of the application for the certi...

...procedure for calculating the amount of tax imposed by section 5725.18 of the Revised Code that is due under this chapter, a taxpayer shall claim any credits and offsets against tax liability to which it is entitled in the following order: The credit for an insurance company or insurance company group under section 5729.031 of the Revised Code; The credit for eligible employee training costs under section 5725....

...ated group shall be eliminated, and any sales, exchanges, and other dispositions of commercial paper to persons outside the affiliated group produces gross income only to the extent the proceeds from such transactions exceed the affiliated group's basis in such commercial paper. (N) "Reporting person" means one of the following: (1) In the case of a financial institution described in division (H)(1) of this sec...

...l governments, there is hereby levied a tax on each financial institution for the privilege of doing business in this state. A financial institution is subject to the tax imposed under this chapter for each calendar year that the financial institution conducts business as a financial institution in this state or otherwise has nexus in or with this state under the Constitution of the United States on the first day of ...

... October, the reporting person for each taxpayer shall make a report in writing to the tax commissioner, in such form as the commissioner prescribes, and shall remit to the commissioner the amount of tax shown to be due on the report. The remittance shall be made payable to the treasurer of state. The commissioner shall make available, on the official internet web site of the department of taxation, copies of the for...

...(A)(1) The tax levied on a financial institution other than a de novo bank organization under this chapter shall be the greater of the following: (a) A minimum tax equal to one thousand dollars; (b) The product of the total Ohio equity capital of the financial institution, as determined under this section, multiplied by eight mills for each dollar of the first two hundred million dollars of total Ohio equity ca...

...ds; securities purchased and sold under agreements to resell or repurchase; options; futures contracts; forward contracts; notional principal contracts such as swaps; equities; foreign currency transactions; and amounts in the matched book and in the arbitrage book, but excluding amounts otherwise sourced in this section. (2) If a financial institution elects to apply the method prescribed in division (D)(2) o...

...(A) The reporting person for a taxpayer shall file estimated tax reports and remit the amount of tax estimated to be due for a tax year to the tax commissioner as follows: (1) One-third of the estimated tax or the minimum tax required under division (A)(1)(a) of section 5726.04 of the Revised Code, if applicable and greater than one-third of the estimated tax, on or before the thirty-first day of January of the ta...

...e case of an underpayment of estimated taxes required to be paid under section 5726.06 of the Revised Code, interest upon the amount of underpayment, calculated at the rate per annum prescribed by section 5703.47 of the Revised Code for the period of underpayment, shall be added to the tax due for the tax year for which the estimated tax is paid. (B) The amount of underpayment upon which such interest is comp...

...The tax commissioner shall enforce and administer this chapter. In addition to any other powers conferred upon the commissioner by law, the commissioner may do any of the following: (A) Prescribe all forms required to be filed pursuant to this chapter; (B) Promulgate such rules and regulations as the commissioner finds necessary to carry out this chapter; (C) Appoint and employ such personnel as are necessar...

...ommissioner, and all laws applicable to sales on execution shall apply to sales made under the judgment. (3) If the assessment is not paid in its entirety within sixty days after the day the assessment was issued, the portion of the assessment consisting of tax due shall bear interest at the rate per annum prescribed by section 5703.47 of the Revised Code from the date the tax commissioner issues the assessment unt...

...wing penalties shall apply: (1) If a taxpayer required to file any report under this chapter fails to make and file the report within the time prescribed, a penalty may be imposed 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 month or fraction of a month, not to exceed fifty per cent of the tax required to be shown on the...

...(A) The tax commissioner shall refund amounts imposed under this chapter that a person overpaid, paid illegally or erroneously, or paid on an illegal or erroneous assessment. The person shall file an application for refund with the tax commissioner, on the form prescribed by the commissioner, within four years after the date of the illegal or erroneous payment, or within any additional period allowed under division (...

...ion, "debt to this state" means unpaid taxes due the state, unpaid workers' compensation premiums due under section 4123.35 of the Revised Code, unpaid unemployment compensation contributions due under section 4141.25 of the Revised Code, unpaid unemployment compensation payments in lieu of contributions due under section 4141.241 of the Revised Code, unpaid claims certified under section 131.02 or 131.021 of ...

...If any tax due under this chapter 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 the payment of the tax until the date the tax is paid or the date an assessment is issued under section 5726.20 o...

...rpayment" means an amount received by a taxpayer in excess of a refund claimed or a request for payment made by the reporting person for the taxpayer on a return, report, or other document filed with the tax commissioner. (B) A taxpayer is not liable for any interest or penalty with respect to the repayment of a qualifying refund overpayment if the reporting person for the taxpayer pays the entire amount of t...

...(A) A person shall notify the tax commissioner when the person is no longer subject to the tax imposed by this chapter. (B) If the ownership structure of a financial institution changes such that a person is no longer includable in the annual report of the financial institution, the reporting person for the financial institution shall notify the commissioner of the change when the reporting person files its n...

...ile any report or return or to pay any tax or fee under Title LVII of the Revised Code, fails or neglects 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 for 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 document of ...

...No person shall exercise, or attempt to exercise, any powers, privileges, or franchises under the person's document of creation after the document is canceled pursuant to section 5726.40 of the Revised Code. A penalty of one hundred dollars shall be imposed for each day a violation of this section occurs, up to a maximum penalty of five thousand dollars.

...retary of state a certificate from the tax commissioner that the person has complied with all the requirements of law as to tax reports and paid all taxes, fees, or penalties due thereon for every year of delinquency; (b) Payment to the secretary of state of any additional fees and penalties required to be paid to the secretary of state; (c) Payment to the secretary of state of an additional fee of ten dollars...

...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 the reporting person for the financial institution has its principal place of business in this state to forfeit and annul the privileges and franchises of each person included in the annual report of the financial institution. If the court is satisfied that any such f...

...(A) A taxpayer may claim a refundable tax credit against the tax imposed under this chapter for each person included in the annual report of the taxpayer that is granted a credit by the tax credit authority under section 122.17 or former division (B)(2) or (3) of section 122.171 of the Revised Code as those divisions existed before September 29, 2015. Such a credit shall not be claimed for any tax year following the ...

...n 149.311 of the Revised Code. (B) A taxpayer may claim a refundable credit against the tax imposed by this chapter for each person included in the annual report of a taxpayer that is a certificate owner of a rehabilitation tax credit certificate issued under section 149.311 of the Revised Code. The credit shall equal twenty-five per cent of the dollar amount indicated on each certificate, but shall not exce...

...A taxpayer may claim a refundable credit against the tax imposed by this chapter for each person included in the annual report of the taxpayer that was issued a tax credit certificate by the Ohio venture capital authority under section 150.07 of the Revised Code. The amount of the credit shall equal the amount specified in the tax credit certificate. The credit shall be claimed for the tax year specified in the...

...ion 5725.33 of the Revised Code. (B) A taxpayer may claim a nonrefundable credit against the tax imposed by this chapter for each person included in the annual report of the taxpayer that holds a qualified equity investment on a credit allowance date occurring in the calendar year immediately preceding the tax year for which the tax is due. The credit shall be computed in the same manner prescribed for the computati...

...ion 122.85 of the Revised Code. (B) A taxpayer may claim a refundable credit against the tax imposed under this chapter for each person included in the annual report of the taxpayer that is a certificate owner of a tax credit certificate issued under section 122.85 of the Revised Code. The credit shall be claimed for the taxable year in which the certificate is issued by the director of development services. T...

... of the Internal Revenue Code. (B) A taxpayer may claim a nonrefundable credit against the tax imposed under this chapter equal to seven per cent of the excess of (1) the qualified research expenses incurred by the taxpayer in this state in a taxable year over (2) the average annual qualified research expenses incurred by the taxpayer in this state in the three previous taxable years. For the purposes of this divi...

...irst day of the financial institution's tax year. (B) For tax year 2014 there is hereby allowed to each financial institution a nonrefundable credit against the tax imposed by section 5726.02 of the Revised Code. The amount of the credit shall be computed in accordance with division (C) of this section. The credit shall be claimed in the order prescribed by section 5726.98 of the Revised Code. The credit shal...

...on 175.16 of the Revised Code. (B) A taxpayer may claim a nonrefundable tax credit against the tax imposed under section 5726.02 of the Revised Code for each person included in the annual report of the taxpayer that is allocated a credit issued by the executive director of the Ohio housing finance agency under section 175.16 of the Revised Code. The credit equals the amount allocated to such person for the taxable...

...n 122.852 of the Revised Code. (B) A taxpayer may claim a refundable credit against the tax imposed under this chapter for each person included in the annual report of the taxpayer that is a certificate owner of a tax credit certificate issued under section 122.852 of the Revised Code. The credit shall be claimed for the taxable year in which the certificate is issued by the director of development. The credit amo...

...on 175.17 of the Revised Code. (B) A taxpayer may claim a nonrefundable tax credit against the tax imposed under this chapter for each person included in the annual report of the taxpayer that is allocated a credit issued by the executive director of the Ohio housing finance agency under section 175.17 of the Revised Code. The credit equals the amount allocated to such person for the taxable year as provided by th...

...section 122.84 of the Revised Code. A taxpayer may claim a nonrefundable credit against the tax imposed under section 5726.02 of the Revised Code for each person included in the annual report of the taxpayer to whom a certificate is issued under section 122.84 of the Revised Code or is transferred pursuant to that section. The credit equals the amount stated on the certificate and may be claimed for the taxable yea...

...procedure for calculating the amount of tax due under section 5726.02 of the Revised Code, a taxpayer shall claim any credits to which the taxpayer is entitled under this chapter in the following order: The nonrefundable job retention credit under division (B) of section 5726.50 of the Revised Code; The nonrefundable credit for purchases of qualified low-income community investments under section 5726.54 of the...

...Whoever violates section 5726.41 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars or more than one thousand dollars.

...ther telecommunication services. (E) "Taxable property" means the property required by section 5727.06 of the Revised Code to be assessed by the tax commissioner, but does not include either of the following: (1) An item of tangible personal property that for the period subsequent to the effective date of an air, water, or noise pollution control certificate and continuing so long as the certificate is in for...

... air to others is incidental. (2) For tax year 2009 and each tax year thereafter, a person that is engaged in some other primary business to which the supplying of electricity to others is incidental shall be treated as an "electric company" and a "public utility" for purposes of this chapter solely to the extent required by section 5727.031 of the Revised Code. (3) For purposes of division (A) of this section an...

...ted activity of a combined company. The tax commissioner shall separately value, apportion, and assess the company's property. Divisions (B)(1), (2), and (3) of this section shall be used to determine the taxable property that cannot be directly attributed to providing one of the listed activities of a combined company. (B)(1) The taxable property to attribute to an electric company or a rural electric company activ...

...ompany but shall only report therein as taxable property the amounts required in divisions (B) and (C) of this section. All time limits and other procedural requirements of this chapter for the reporting and assessment of property of electric companies apply to persons required to file a report under this section. For the purposes of this section, "the supplying of electricity to others" shall not include donating al...

...cations company from the assessment and taxation of its property in the manner provided by law.

...Sections 5727.01 to 5727.61 of the Revised Code do not apply to either of the following: (A) Nonprofit corporations as defined in division (C) of section 1702.01 of the Revised Code that are engaged exclusively in the treatment, distribution, and sale of water to consumers; (B) Municipal corporations within this state.

... by law, the following constitutes the taxable property of a public utility, interexchange telecommunications company, or public utility property lessor that shall be assessed by the tax commissioner: (1) For tax years before tax year 2006: (a) In the case of a railroad company, all real property and tangible personal property owned or operated by the railroad company in this state on the thirty-first day of...

...ge telecommunications company, and, for tax years 2009 and thereafter, each public utility property lessor, shall file a report with the tax commissioner, on a form prescribed by the tax commissioner. The report shall include such information as the tax commissioner requires to enable the tax commissioner to make any assessment or apportionment required under this chapter. The report shall be signed by either the o...

...Annually, the tax commissioner shall determine, in accordance with section 5727.11 of the Revised Code, the true value in money of all taxable property, except property of a railroad company, required by section 5727.06 of the Revised Code to be assessed by the commissioner. The commissioner also shall determine the total taxable value of such property based on the percentages of true value at which the property is ...

... in this section, the true value of all taxable property, except property of a railroad company, required by section 5727.06 of the Revised Code to be assessed by the tax commissioner shall be determined by a method of valuation using cost as capitalized on the public utility's books and records less composite annual allowances as prescribed by the commissioner. If the commissioner finds that application of this meth...

...The taxable property of each public utility, except a railroad company, and of each interexchange telecommunications company shall be assessed at the following percentages of true value: (A) In the case of a rural electric company, fifty per cent in the case of its taxable transmission and distribution property and its energy conversion equipment, and twenty-five per cent for all its other taxable property; (B) In ...

...s property used in or determined by the tax commissioner to be held by a railroad for use in railroad operations. In determining the true value of all real and personal property owned or leased by each railroad company and used in railroad operations, the commissioner shall use the unitary method and value all of the property of the company's railroad system as a whole, considering the factors generally used in that ...

...is state and part in another state, the tax commissioner shall take the entire value of the property of such public utility, determined in accordance with sections 5727.01 to 5727.62 of the Revised Code, and apportion it to this state in the proportion that the length of the road in this state bears to the whole length of road. As used in this section, "length of road" means the miles of single or first main track, m...

...When all the taxable property of a public utility is located in one taxing district, the tax commissioner shall apportion the total taxable value thereof to that taxing district. When taxable property of a public utility is located in more than one taxing district, the commissioner shall apportion the total taxable value thereof among the taxing districts as follows: (A)(1) In the case of a telegraph, intere...

... first Monday in October, annually, the tax commissioner shall assess the taxable property of each public utility and interexchange telecommunications company, and for tax year 2009 and thereafter of each public utility property lessor. If the taxpayer failed to file its annual report required by section 5727.08 of the Revised Code at least sixty days prior to the first Monday of October, the commissioner may make th...

...te, on and after May 1, 2000, an excise tax is hereby levied on the gross receipts of a natural gas company and on the gross receipts of a combined company from operating as a natural gas company. The tax shall be computed by multiplying the taxable gross receipts as determined under section 5727.33 of the Revised Code by four and three-fourths per cent. A combined company shall be subject to this tax on any gross re...

...As used in this section, "taxpayer" means any person subject to the tax imposed by section 5727.24 of the Revised Code. Upon the issuance of a tax credit certificate by the Ohio venture capital authority under section 150.07 of the Revised Code, a refundable credit may be claimed against the tax imposed on a taxpayer under section 5727.24 of the Revised Code. The credit shall be claimed on a return due under section...

... combined company subject to the excise tax imposed by section 5727.24 of the Revised Code shall file a return with the tax commissioner, in such form as the commissioner prescribes, and pay the full amount of the tax due on its taxable gross receipts for the preceding calendar quarter. All payments made under this division shall be made electronically in accordance with section 5727.311 of the Revised Code. (B) A...

...ommissioner, and all laws applicable to sales on execution shall apply to sales made under the judgment. If the assessment is not paid in its entirety within sixty days after the day the assessment was issued, the portion of the assessment consisting of tax due shall bear interest at the rate per annum prescribed by section 5703.47 of the Revised Code from the day the tax commissioner issues the assessment until it ...

...pany or combined company liable for the tax imposed by section 5727.24 of the Revised Code shall keep complete and accurate records as prescribed by the tax commissioner. The records shall be preserved for four years after the return for the tax to which the records pertain is due or filed, whichever is later. The natural gas company or combined company shall make the records available for inspection by the commissi...

...(A) The tax commissioner shall refund to a natural gas company or combined company subject to the tax imposed by section 5727.24 of the Revised Code amounts paid illegally or erroneously, or paid on an illegal or erroneous assessment. Applications for a refund shall be filed with the tax commissioner, on a form prescribed by the commissioner, within four years of the illegal or erroneous payment. On the filing of ...

...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 receipts made pursuant to section 5727.31 of the Revised Code on or before October 15, 1999, and on or before the first day...

...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 ...

...ch 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 year as b...

...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 thousand do...

...ederal government; (ii) Receipts from sales to another public utility for resale, provided such other public utility is subject to the tax levied by section 5727.24 or 5727.30 of the Revised Code; (iii) Receipts of a combined company derived from operating as a natural gas company that is subject to the tax imposed by section 5727.24 of the Revised Code. (b) The total gross receipts of the company, for the year...

...of merchandise; (4) All receipts from sales to other public utilities, except railroad and telegraph companies, for resale, provided the other public utility is subject to the tax levied by section 5727.24 or 5727.30 of the Revised Code. (C) In ascertaining and determining the gross receipts of a natural gas company, receipts billed on behalf of other entities are excluded. The tax imposed by section 5727.811 of ...

...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...

...(A) The tax commissioner shall collect the excise tax imposed by section 5727.30 of the Revised Code and the taxpayer shall pay all taxes and any penalties thereon. Payments of the tax may be made by mail, in person, electronically if required to do so by section 5727.311 of the Revised Code, or by any other means authorized by the commissioner. The commissioner may adopt rules concerning the methods and timeliness o...

...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.

...h it is addressed. With the notice, the tax commissioner shall provide instructions on how to petition for reassessment and request a hearing on the petition. If a public utility objects to such an assessment, it may file with the commissioner, either personally or by certified mail, within sixty days after the mailing of the notice of assessment a written petition for reassessment signed by the utility's authorized ...

...7 of the Revised Code to be sent by the tax commissioner to the county auditor as to the disposition of a petition for reassessment, or of a decision of the board of tax appeals or any court with respect to an assessment of public utility property taxes. (B) On receipt of the notification, the auditor shall determine whether there has been an underpayment or overpayment of taxes by the public utility. In the case of...

...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...

...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, proportion, or...

...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...

...file any report 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 utilit...

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

...make any report or return or to pay any tax or fee, upon payment to the secretary of state of any additional fees and penalties required to be paid to the secretary of state, and upon the filing with the secretary of state of a certificate from the tax commissioner that it has complied with all the requirements of law as to franchise or excise tax reports and paid all franchise or excise taxes, fees, or penalties due...

...her remedies for the collection of any taxes or penalties due under law, whenever any 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 req...

...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...

... returns, statements, or reports to the tax commissioner under sections 5727.01 to 5727.62 of the Revised Code shall file therewith, 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 Revise...

...n 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 shall ...

...ent, secretary, receiver, accounting or tax officer, servant, or agent of a railroad company shall refuse to attend before a lawful board of appraisers and assessors when required to do so, or refuse to submit to the inspection of such board any books or papers of such company in his possession, custody, or control, or refuse to answer any question put to him by the board or upon its order concerning the business, ...

...fuse to attend before the department of taxation when required to do so, or refuse to bring with the officer, employee, or agent and submit for inspection any books or papers of such person in the officer's, employee's, or agent's possession, custody, or control, or refuse to answer any questions put to the officer, employee, or agent concerning the organization, business, or property of such person.

...In case any tax or fee authorized by law to be charged and collected against any class of corporations or public utilities is declared invalid, such invalidity shall not affect the validity of the law, as applicable to any other class of corporations or public utilities.

... the later of the following: (a) The tax year in which the secretary of the treasury of the United States, or the secretary's delegate, determines, in accordance with section 45Y of the Internal Revenue Code, that the annual greenhouse gas emissions from the production of electricity in the United States are equal to or less than twenty-five per cent of the annual greenhouse gas emissions from the production of el...

...n company that is required to remit the tax imposed by section 5727.81 of the Revised Code. "Electric distribution company" does not include a person that donates all of the electricity the person generates to a political subdivision of the state. Division (A)(2) of this section shall not apply to a political subdivision in this state that is the end user of electricity that is donated to the political subdivision....

...nd equipment acquisition; and financing agreements. (c) "Single location" means a facility located on contiguous property separated only by a roadway, railway, or waterway. (2) Division (C) of this section applies to any commercial or industrial purchaser's receipt of electricity through a meter of an end user in this state or through more than one meter at a single location in this state in a quantity that exc...

...te and its local governments, an excise tax is hereby levied on every natural gas distribution company for all natural gas volumes billed by, or on behalf of, the company. Except as provided in divisions (C) or (D) of this section, the tax shall be levied at the following rates per MCF of natural gas distributed by the company through a meter of an end user in this state: MCF DISTRIBUTED TO AN END USER RATE PE...

...istribution company required to pay the tax imposed by section 5727.81 of the Revised Code shall file with the tax commissioner a return as prescribed by the tax commissioner and shall make payment of the full amount of tax due for the preceding month. The electric distribution company shall make payment to the tax commissioner unless required to remit the payment electronically as provided in section 5727.83 of the ...

...lf-assessing purchaser shall remit each tax payment electronically as prescribed by divisions (B) and (C) of this section. The tax commissioner shall notify each natural gas distribution company, electric distribution company, and self-assessing purchaser of the obligation to remit taxes electronically by using the Ohio business gateway, as defined in section 718.01 of the Revised Code, or another means of electro...

...11.50 of the Revised Code. (3) "Local taxing unit" means a subdivision or taxing unit, as defined in section 5705.01 of the Revised Code, a park district created under Chapter 1545. of the Revised Code, or a township park district established under section 511.23 of the Revised Code, but excludes school districts and joint vocational school districts. (4) "State education aid," for a school district, means the fo...

...f the recognized valuation included the tax value loss for the school district or joint vocational school district; (c) The state education aid offset for fiscal year 2010 and fiscal year 2011 equals the greater of the state education aid offset calculated for that fiscal year under divisions (A)(1)(a) and (b) of this section or the state education aid offset calculated for fiscal year 2009. (2) For fiscal years 20...

...s section after June 30, 2015. (A) The tax commissioner shall compute the payments to be made to each local taxing unit, and to each public library that receives the proceeds of a tax levied under section 5705.23 of the Revised Code, for each year according to divisions (A)(1), (2), (3), and (4) and division (E) of this section, and shall distribute the payments in the manner prescribed by division (C) of this secti...

...The tax commissioner shall administer sections 5727.80 to 5727.95 of the Revised Code and may adopt such rules as are necessary to administer those sections. Upon request of the tax commissioner, the public utilities commission shall assist the tax commissioner by providing information regarding any natural gas distribution company or electric distribution company that is subject to regulation by the commission.

...ommissioner, and all laws applicable to sales on execution shall apply to sales made under the judgment. If the assessment is not paid in its entirety within sixty days after the day the assessment was issued, the portion of the assessment consisting of tax due shall bear interest at the rate per annum prescribed by section 5703.47 of the Revised Code from the day the tax commissioner issues the assessment unti...

...No assessment of the tax imposed by section 5727.81 or 5727.811 of the Revised Code shall be made by the tax commissioner more than four years after the date on which the return for the period assessed was due or filed, whichever date is later. This section does not bar an assessment when any of the following occur: (A) The party assessed failed to file a return as required by section 5727.82 of the Revised Code; (...

...rer of state shall refund the amount of tax paid under section 5727.81 or 5727.811 of the Revised Code that was paid illegally or erroneously, or paid on an illegal or erroneous assessment, or any penalty assessed with respect to such taxes. A natural gas distribution company, an electric distribution company, or a self-assessing purchaser shall file an application for a refund with the tax commissioner on a form pre...

...Every person liable for the tax imposed by section 5727.81 or 5727.811 of the Revised Code shall keep complete and accurate records of all electric and natural gas distributions and other records as required by the tax commissioner. The records shall be preserved for four years after the return for the taxes to which the records pertain is due or filed, whichever is later. The records shall be available for inspecti...

... that person is not registered with the tax commissioner as an electric distribution company or a natural gas distribution company. (B) Each person required to register under division (A) of this section shall register prior to distributing electricity or natural gas to a meter of an end user in this state or to an unmetered location in this state. The tax commissioner shall prescribe the form of the registration ap...

...istribution company required to pay the tax imposed by section 5727.81 of the Revised Code and each natural gas distribution company required to pay the tax imposed by section 5727.811 of the Revised Code shall provide to its customers in this state the statement required by section 4933.33 of the Revised Code.

...(A) No natural gas distribution company, electric distribution company, or self-assessing purchaser shall fail to file any return or report required to be filed pursuant to section 5727.82 of the Revised Code, or file or cause to be filed any incomplete, false, or fraudulent return, report, or statement, or aid or abet another in the filing of any false or fraudulent return, report, or statement. (B) No person shall...

...Revised Code or any rule adopted by the tax commissioner under those sections, is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree on the first offense; on each subsequent offense, the person is guilty of a felony of the fourth degree.

...rpose of construction, reconstruction, maintenance, or repair. (J) "Jurisdiction" means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, or a province or territory of Canada.

...ode, every person who is liable for the tax imposed by section 5728.06 of the Revised Code on the operation of a commercial car or a commercial tractor that is, or is to be, operated or driven upon a public highway in two or more jurisdictions shall cause to be filed annually with the tax commissioner an application for a fuel use permit to be furnished by the commissioner for that purpose. Each application for a ...

... that would otherwise be liable for the tax imposed by section 5728.06 of the Revised Code, that is, or is to be, operated or driven upon a public highway, may file an application with the tax commissioner for a single-trip fuel use permit. The application shall be based on rules adopted by the tax commissioner and shall include an amount estimated to be substantially equivalent to the fuel use tax liability that t...

...mmercial tractor that is subject to the tax imposed by section 5728.06 of the Revised Code on a public highway in two or more jurisdictions under either of the following circumstances: (1) Without a fuel use permit or single trip fuel use permit for such commercial car or commercial tractor. (2) With a suspended or surrendered fuel use permit for such commercial car or commercial tractor. (B) The judge or magis...

...r may enter into cooperative reciprocal agreements providing for the imposition of fuel use taxes on an apportionment or allocation basis with the proper authority of any state, any commonwealth, the District of Columbia, a state or province of a foreign country, or a territory or possession of the United States or of a foreign country. The agreement may provide for determining the base state for fuel users, users' r...

...) For the following purposes, an excise tax is hereby imposed on the use of motor fuel to operate on the public highways of this state a commercial car with three or more axles, regardless of weight, operated alone or as part of a commercial tandem, a commercial car with two axles having a gross vehicle weight or registered gross vehicle weight exceeding twenty-six thousand pounds operated alone or as part of a comme...

...ate shall refund the amount of fuel use taxes overpaid, paid illegally or erroneously, or paid on any illegal or erroneous assessment, or any penalty assessed with respect to such taxes. 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 overpayment, the illegal or erroneous payment, or the payment of the illegal or erro...

...r becomes liable for the payment of the tax levied in section 5728.06 of the Revised Code shall maintain detailed distance and fuel records for each commercial car and commercial tractor owned, leased, rented, or otherwise operated by such person. Such records shall be available at any time, during normal business hours, for the inspection of the tax commissioner or the commissioner's duly authorized agents and sh...

...hoever is liable for the payment of the tax levied by section 5728.06 of the Revised Code, on or before the last day of each January, April, July, and October, shall file with the tax commissioner, on forms prescribed by the commissioner, a fuel use tax return and make payment of the full amount of the tax due for the operation of each commercial car and commercial tractor for the preceding three calendar months. Th...

...of fifty dollars or ten per cent of the tax due. The tax commissioner may adopt rules providing for the imposition and remission of the additional charges. Any additional charge imposed under this section may be collected through an assessment as provided in section 5728.10 of the Revised Code. (B) If the tax imposed by this chapter, or any portion of that tax, whether determined by the tax commissioner or the taxpa...

...ommissioner, and all laws applicable to sales on execution shall apply to sales made under the judgment. If the assessment is not paid within sixty days after the day the assessment was issued, the portion of the assessment consisting of tax due shall bear interest at the rate per annum prescribed by section 5703.47 of the Revised Code from the day the commissioner issues the assessment until it is paid or unti...

...728.10 of the Revised Code, or when the tax commissioner files a certified copy of an entry making an assessment as provided in that section, the commissioner shall suspend all fuel use permits issued to the person against whom the assessment was made, provided that no fuel use permit shall be suspended while an appeal is pending, except in those cases in which no return has been filed, or where it is alleged a fr...

...rcial tractor, which is subject to the tax levied in section 5728.06 of the Revised Code, or of having the same operated within this state, and any resident of this state who operates a commercial car or commercial tractor, which is subject to the tax levied in section 5728.06 of the Revised Code, or has the same operated within this state and subsequently becomes a non-resident or conceals the person's wherea...

...Sections 5728.02 to 5728.12 of the Revised Code do not apply to motor vehicles, commercial cars, or commercial tractors owned and operated by the United States, by this state or any political subdivisions thereof, or by any other state or its political subdivisions if that state extends a similar exemption to motor vehicles, commercial cars, or commercial tractors owned and operated by this state or its political sub...

...er powers conferred upon him by law the tax commissioner shall have the following powers: (A) To prescribe all forms required to be filed with the treasurer of state or the tax commissioner pursuant to sections 5728.01 to 5728.14 of the Revised Code; (B) To appoint and employ such personnel as may be necessary to carry out the duties imposed upon him by sections 5728.01 to 5728.14 of the Revised Code; (C) To adopt...

...(A) As used in this section, "peace officer" has the same meaning as in section 2935.01 of the Revised Code. (B) A peace officer, law enforcement agency employing a peace officer, and the state or any political subdivision associated with a peace officer are not liable in damages in a civil action for any injury, death, or loss to person or property allegedly caused by conduct of a peace officer in the course of hi...

...orm, required to file reports and remit taxes imposed under this chapter fails for any reason to file such reports or remit such taxes, any employees of the person having control or supervision of, or charged with the responsibility of, filing reports and making payments, or any officers or trustees of the person responsible for the execution of the person's fiscal responsibilities, shall be personally liable for the...

...ed Code, or any rule promulgated by the tax commissioner under the authority of any provision of those sections, for the violation of which no penalty is provided elsewhere, shall be fined not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars. (2) Division (A)(1) of this section does not apply to the filing of any false or fraudulent return, application, or permit under section 5728.02, 5728.03, or 5728.08 of ...

...(A) "Return premiums," as used in sections 5729.02 and 5729.03 of the Revised Code, does not include the cash surrender values under policies or contracts of life or endowment insurance. (B) "Foreign insurance company," as used in sections 5729.02, 5729.05, 5729.11, and 5729.14 of the Revised Code, has the same meaning as in division (E) of section 5725.01 of the Revised Code.

...(A) Subject to division (B) of this section, every foreign insurance company shall set forth in its annual statement to the superintendent of insurance the gross amount of premiums received by it from policies covering risks within this state during the preceding calendar year, less return premiums paid for cancellations and considerations received for reinsurance of risks within this state, provided that dividends p...

...charge such amount to such company as a tax upon the business done by it in this state for the period covered by such annual statement: (1) If the company is a health insuring corporation, one per cent of the balance of premium rate payments received, exclusive of payments received under the medicare program and exclusive of payments received pursuant to the medicaid program for the period ending September 30...

...ny group may claim a credit against the tax imposed under section 5725.18 or 5729.03 of the Revised Code. An insurance company group shall compute one credit for the group as a whole, and one or more companies in the group may claim all or a portion of that credit until it is exhausted. The superintendent of insurance may adopt rules for the apportionment of the credit among the members of an insurance company group....

...Upon the issuance of a tax credit certificate by the director of development, a refundable credit granted by the tax credit authority under section 122.17 of the Revised Code may be claimed against the tax imposed by section 5729.03 of the Revised Code. The credit shall be claimed in the calendar year specified in the certificate issued by the director of development.

...To compute franchise taxes on gross premiums to be paid under any law of this state by any mutual insurance company authorized to do business under the laws of this state, or by any stock insurance company so authorized, doing business on the plan of distributing back to its policyholders at the end of the policy year refunds of a portion of the premium collected, the amount of premium deposits received by the ...

...ne-half of the previous calendar year's tax, before credits, which was assessed and paid under section 3737.71 of the Revised Code and this chapter. This payment shall be considered as a partial payment of the tax upon the business done in this state during the calendar year in which the payment date provided by this paragraph is contained. At the time of filing its annual statement, each foreign insurance company s...

... privilege of doing business therein or taxes against insurance companies organized in this state exceeding the charges provided in sections 5729.01 to 5729.15, inclusive, of the Revised Code, like amounts shall be charged against all insurance companies of such state, territory, or nation doing business in this state, instead of the charges provided by said sections.

...owed a nonrefundable credit against the tax imposed under this chapter for a foreign insurance company for which a tax credit certificate is issued under section 5733.42 of the Revised Code. The credit may be claimed for credit periods beginning on or after January 1, 2003, and ending on or before December 31, 2007. The amount of the credit for the credit period beginning on January 1, 2003, shall equal one-half o...

...Upon the issuance of a tax credit certificate by the Ohio venture capital authority under section 150.07 of the Revised Code, a refundable credit may be claimed against the tax imposed on a foreign insurance company under section 5729.03 of the Revised Code. The credit shall be claimed in the calendar year specified in the certificate issued by the authority.

...The superintendent of insurance, annually and at such other times as he sees fit, shall require the president or other chief officer of each company or association to file a statement under oath showing the names of each fire insurance company or association with whom or for whom liability for insurance on property located wholly or partially in this state has been reinsured, disposed of, ceded, pooled, divided, or i...

...If a company fails to pay the tax levied by section 5729.03 of the Revised Code, or to make any partial payment thereof as required by law after a statement thereof has been made and mailed to it, or if the annual statement required by law to be made by it is false or incorrect, the superintendent of insurance may revoke the license of such company doing business in this state. Upon failure to pay the tax or to make ...

...r which the interest accrues. (A) When taxes levied by this chapter or by section 3737.71 of the Revised Code are assessed as the result of a tax return being filed late, the treasurer of state shall add interest to the taxes due. The interest shall accrue from the first day of the month following the last day on which the taxes were required to be paid had the assessment been certified by the date prescribed, to th...

...fund to a foreign insurance company any taxes imposed by section 3737.71 of the Revised Code or amounts imposed under this chapter that are overpaid, paid illegally or erroneously, or paid on any illegal, erroneous, or excessive assessment, with interest thereon as provided by section 5729.101 of the Revised Code, shall be filed with the superintendent of insurance, on the form prescribed by the superintendent, withi...

...gn insurance company refuses to pay the tax levied by section 5729.03 of the Revised Code upon demand being made therefor, it shall be liable to the state at the suit of the attorney general to a penalty of not more than five hundred dollars per month for each month it has failed, after demand therefor, to pay the tax. Service of process in such action shall be made according to the requirements of law governing suit...

...When notice of a violation of sections 5729.07 to 5729.09, inclusive, and section 5729.13 of the Revised Code, is received by the superintendent of insurance, he shall forthwith visit the office of the company where such contract of insurance has been written or made and demand an inspection of the books and records thereof. Any company refusing to exhibit its books and records for his inspection shall be guilty of v...

... to do business in this state until all taxes and penalties due from it have been paid, together with any expense that may be due under sections 5729.01 to 5729.15, inclusive, of the Revised Code. Such company shall only be readmitted to transact business in this state upon a complete recompliance with the laws in regard to the admission of such company.

...l not be admitted until it has paid all taxes and penalties assessed against it for the violation of the laws relating to insurance. If such foreign company has been reported to the superintendent as having violated any of the laws of this state relating to insurance, he shall make an examination of the books and records of the company seeking admission, and before granting a license to do business in this state, he ...

...The superintendent of insurance shall receive his necessary expenses as compensation for services rendered under sections 5729.01 to 5729.15, inclusive, of the Revised Code. Such sum shall be charged against the companies examined by him, and be collected by suit in any court of competent jurisdiction.

...owed a nonrefundable credit against the tax imposed by section 5729.03 or 5729.06 of the Revised Code for a foreign insurance company holding a qualified equity investment on the credit allowance date occurring in the calendar year for which the tax is due. The credit shall be computed in the same manner prescribed for the computation of credits allowed under section 5725.33 of the Revised Code. The credit shall be ...

...) There is allowed a credit against the tax imposed by section 5729.03 of the Revised Code for an insurance company subject to that tax that is a certificate owner of a rehabilitation tax credit certificate issued under section 149.311 of the Revised Code. The credit shall equal twenty-five per cent of the dollar amount indicated on the certificate, but the amount of the credit allowed for any company for any y...

...There is allowed a credit against the tax imposed by section 5729.03 of the Revised Code for an insurance company subject to that tax that holds the rights to a tax credit certificate issued under section 122.09 of the Revised Code. The credit shall equal the dollar amount indicated on the certificate. The credit shall be claimed in the calendar year specified in the certificate and in the order required under sectio...

... (B) There is allowed a nonrefundable tax credit against the tax imposed by section 5729.03 or 5729.06 of the Revised Code for a foreign insurance company that is allocated a credit issued by the executive director of the Ohio housing finance agency under section 175.16 of the Revised Code. The credit equals the amount allocated to such company for the calendar year and reported by the designated reporter on the fo...

... (B) There is allowed a nonrefundable tax credit against the tax imposed by section 5729.03 or 5729.06 of the Revised Code for a foreign insurance company that is allocated a credit issued by the executive director of the Ohio housing finance agency under section 175.17 of the Revised Code. The credit equals the amount allocated to such company for the calendar year and reported by the designated reporter on the fo...

...lowed a nonrefunable credit against the tax imposed by section 5729.03 of the Revised Code for a foreign insurance company that is issued, or to which is transferred, a tax credit certificate under section 122.84 of the Revised Code. The credit equals the amount stated on the certificate and may be claimed for the calendar year that includes the investment period that was the subject of the application for the certif...

...procedure for calculating the amount of tax due under this chapter, a taxpayer shall claim any credits and offsets against tax liability to which it is entitled in the following order: The credit for an insurance company or insurance company group under section 5729.031 of the Revised Code; The credit for eligible employee training costs under section 5729.07 of the Revised Code; The credit for purchases of ...

...xchange and by reason of the absence of sales of them, cannot be determined with reference to bid and asked prices, or with reference to sales prices, the value of them shall be determined by taking into consideration, in addition to all other factors, the value of stock or securities of corporations engaged in the same or a similar line of business which are listed on an exchange or which are traded actively in the ...

... following the person filing the estate tax return elects: (a) Its fair market value, as determined pursuant to division (B) of section 5731.01 of the Revised Code; (b) Its value for its actual qualified use, on the date of the decedent's death or on an alternate valuation date prescribed by division (D) of section 5731.01 of the Revised Code; (c) Its value for its actual qualified use, as determined under section...

...(A) A tax is hereby levied on the transfer of the taxable estate, determined as provided in section 5731.14 of the Revised Code, of every person dying on or after July 1, 1968, and before January 1, 2013, who at the time of death was a resident of this state, as follows: If the taxable estate is: The tax shall be: Not over $40,000 2% of the taxable estate Over $40,000 but not over $100,000 $800 plus 3% ...

...The value of the gross estate shall include the value of all property, to the extent of the interest therein of the decedent on the date of the decedent's death.

...The value of the gross estate shall include the value of all property, to the extent of any interest therein of the surviving spouse, existing on the date of the decedent's death as dower or curtesy or by virtue of a statute creating an estate in lieu of dower or curtesy.

...evised Code; (5) Federal or state gift taxes paid with respect to any includible transfer.

...The value of the gross estate shall include the value of all property, to the extent of any interest therein of which the decedent has at any time made a transfer, except in the case of a bona fide sale for an adequate and full consideration in money or money's worth, by trust or otherwise, under which he has retained for his life or for any period not ascertainable without reference to his death or for any period w...

...rules and regulations prescribed by the tax commissioner.

...The value of the gross estate shall include the value of all property, to the extent of any interest therein of which the decedent has made a transfer except in the case of a bona fide sale for an adequate and full consideration in money or money's worth, by trust or otherwise, where the enjoyment thereof was subject on the date of the decedent's death to any change through the exercise of a power, in whatever capaci...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, the value of the gross estate includes the value of an annuity or other payment receivable by a beneficiary by reason of surviving the decedent under any form of contract or agreement under which an annuity or similar payment was payable to the decedent, or the decedent possessed the right to receive such annuity or payment, either alone or in conjunction with a...

...(A) The value of the gross estate shall include the value of all property, to the extent of the interest therein held by the decedent and any person jointly, so that upon the death of one of them, the survivor has or the survivors have a right to the immediate ownership or possession or enjoyment of the whole property, except such part thereof as may be shown to have originally belonged to such other person or person...

...(A) The value of the gross estate shall include the value of all property, to the extent of any interest with respect to which the decedent has on the date of the decedent's death a general power of appointment, or with respect to which the decedent has at any time exercised or released such a power of appointment by a disposition which is of such nature that if it were a transfer of property owned by the decedent, s...

...The value of the gross estate shall include the value of all property to the extent of the amount receivable by the decedent's estate as insurance under policies on the life of the decedent. The value of the gross estate shall not include any amount receivable as insurance under policies on the life of the decedent by beneficiaries other than the decedent's estate, whether paid directly to those beneficiaries, to a t...

...(A) If any one of the transfers, trusts, interests, rights, or powers enumerated and described in sections 5731.05 to 5731.08, inclusive, and 5731.11 of the Revised Code, is made, created, exercised or relinquished for a consideration in money or money's worth, but is not a bona fide sale for an adequate and full consideration in money or money's worth, there shall be included in the gross estate only the excess of t...

...h the determination of the value of the taxable estate of the decedent's predeceasing spouse; (B) If the decedent's predeceasing spouse was not a resident of this state at the time of death and if a marital deduction was allowed with respect to the transfer of such property to the decedent under section 2056(b)(7) of the Internal Revenue Code, in connection with the determination of the value of the taxable estate o...

...For purposes of the tax levied by section 5731.02 of the Revised Code, the value of the taxable estate shall be determined by deducting from the value of the gross estate deductions provided for in sections 5731.15 to 5731.17 of the Revised Code.

...For purposes of the tax levied by section 5731.02 of the Revised Code, the value of the taxable estate shall be determined by deducting from the value of the gross estate: (A) If the decedent dies on or after July 1, 1993 and is survived by a spouse, a marital deduction which shall be allowed in an amount equal to the value of any interest in property that passes or has passed from the decedent to the surviving spou...

...(A) For purposes of the tax levied by section 5731.02 of the Revised Code, the value of the taxable estate shall be determined by deducting from the value of the gross estate amounts for the following: (1) Funeral expenses; (2) Administration expenses, excluding the value of any money or property set off and allowed under section 2106.13 of the Revised Code, to the extent that such expenses have been or will be act...

...pouse's death. (B) For purposes of the tax levied by section 5731.02 of the Revised Code, the value of the taxable estate of the transferee spouse shall be determined by deducting from the value of the gross estate the value, as specified in this division, of property that was transferred to the transferee spouse by the transferor spouse and that, because of the transfer, was taxed in the estate of the transferor sp...

...(A) For purposes of the tax levied by section 5731.02 of the Revised Code, the value of the taxable estate shall be determined by deducting from the value of the gross estate the amount of all bequests, legacies, devises, or transfers, including the interest which falls into any such bequest, legacy, devise or transfer as a result of an irrevocable disclaimer of a bequest, legacy, devise, transfer or power, if the di...

...(A) In addition to the tax levied by section 5731.02 of the Revised Code, a tax is hereby levied upon the transfer of the estate of every person dying on or after July 1, 1968, who, at the time of death was a resident of this state, in an amount equal to the maximum credit allowable by subtitle B, Chapter 11 of the Internal Revenue Code, for any taxes paid to any state. (B) The tax levied on any estate under this se...

...ction, "generation-skipping transfer," "taxable distribution," and "taxable termination" have the same meaning as in Chapter 13 of subtitle B of the Internal Revenue Code. (B) A tax is hereby levied upon every generation-skipping transfer of property having a situs in this state, that occurs at the same time as, and as a result of, the death of an individual, in an amount equal to the credit allowed by Chapter 13 of...

...(A) A tax is hereby levied upon the transfer of so much of the taxable estate of every person dying on or after July 1, 1968, and before January 1, 2013, who, at the time of death, was not a resident of this state, as consists of real property situated in this state, tangible personal property having an actual situs in this state, and intangible personal property employed in carrying on a business within this s...

... transfer of which is subject to estate taxes under section 5731.02 or division (A) of section 5731.19 of the Revised Code, shall file an estate tax return, within nine months of the date of the decedent's death, in the form prescribed by the tax commissioner, in duplicate, with the probate court of the county. The return shall include all property the transfer of which is subject to estate taxes, whether that proper...

..., there shall be added to the amount of tax as finally determined a penalty determined by the tax commissioner, in the amount of five per cent of the amount of that tax if the failure is not for more than one month, or, if the failure is for more than one month, in the amount of five per cent of the amount of that tax plus an additional five per cent for each additional month or fraction of a month during which the f...

...nding the time for payment of an estate tax, the tax levied by section 5731.02 and division (A) of section 5731.19 of the Revised Code shall, without notice or demand by the tax commissioner, be due and payable by the person liable for it, at the expiration of nine months from the date of the decedent's death, to the treasurer of the county. If any amount of tax levied by section 5731.02 or division (A) of section 57...

...1 of the Revised Code, if an additional tax prescribed by section 5731.18 of the Revised Code is due, the executor, administrator, or other person required to file the estate tax return, within sixty days after the date of the final determination of the federal estate tax liability, shall file an additional tax return, in the form prescribed by the tax commissioner, in the same manner as is prescribed for the filing ...

...e to pay the entire amount of an estate tax imposed by this chapter when it is due, to provide for the reasonable needs of the widow and dependent children of the decedent during the remaining period of the administration of the estate, and to pay claims against the estate that are due and payable; (e) A significant portion of the gross estate consists of a farm or a closely-held business, and there are not readily ...

...(A) The tax commissioner shall promptly determine the correctness of the return with respect to the includibility of property, the fair market value or, if applicable, the actual qualified use value of the assets included in the gross estate, the allowance of the credit against the tax and deductions, and all other matters necessary to determine the correct amount of the tax. For this purpose, he may issue subpoenas,...

...(A) The tax commissioner shall, after determining that a return indicating that a tax is due is correct as filed, issue a certificate of determination of final estate tax liability showing the amount of such liability, if any, in triplicate, one copy of which shall be sent by regular mail to the person filing the return, one copy of which shall be sent to the county auditor for the county in which the return was file...

...oved against the gross estate after the tax levied by section 5731.02 or division (A) of section 5731.19 of the Revised Code has been determined, or if the determination of taxes so made is erroneous due to a mistake of fact or law, a claim for refund of tax may be filed by an executor, administrator, trustee, person in possession of property subject to tax, or any transferee thereof, within three years from the time...

...The tax commissioner, the person required to file the return, or any interested party may file exceptions in writing to the tax commissioner's final determination of taxes, with the probate court of the county. Exceptions shall be filed within sixty days from the receipt of the certificate of determination issued by the tax commissioner, stating the grounds upon which such exceptions are taken. The court shall, by or...

...ns concerning the administration of the taxes levied by this chapter, and all questions concerning the proper determination of the amount of such taxes or penalties upon exceptions filed as provided in section 5731.30 of the Revised Code. Such jurisdiction shall exist not only as to the transfer of property which would otherwise invoke the jurisdiction of such court, but shall extend to all cases covered by this chap...

...ay be taken by any party, including the tax commissioner, from the final order of the probate court under section 5731.30 of the Revised Code in the manner provided by law for appeals from orders of the probate court in other cases. An appeal by the tax commissioner may be perfected in the manner provided by law. Upon redetermination of taxes pursuant to this section, the tax commissioner shall issue his certificate...

...yment of TO the county treasurer of any tax due under this chapter, the treasurer shall issue a receipt for the payment in triplicate. He shall deliver one copy to the person paying the taxes, and he immediately shall send the original receipt to the tax commissioner, who shall certify the original receipt and immediately transmit it to the probate court for the county in which the return has been filed if there is a...

...No estate or additional tax shall be imposed upon any transfer of intangible personal property by or from a person who was not legally domiciled in this state at the time of his death, or by reason of the death of such a person, whether such person was the legal or the beneficial owner of such property, and whether or not such property was held for him in this state or elsewhere by another, in trust or otherwise, unl...

...When a probate court or the tax commissioner determines or claims that a decedent was domiciled in this state at the date of decedent's death, and when the taxing authorities of another state, territory, or possession of the United States, or the District of Columbia, make a like claim on behalf of their state, territory, or possession of the United States, or the District of Columbia, the tax commissioner, with the ...

...nistration of the estate of other death tax laws of the domiciliary state of a nonresident decedent is deemed a creditor of the decedent and may sue in the courts of this state and enforce any claim for taxes, penalties, and interest due to that state or a political subdivision of that state. This section applies to the estate of a decedent not domiciled in this state only if the laws of his domicile state contain a ...

...(A) Taxes levied by this chapter shall be, until restricted, transferred, or discharged pursuant to this division, until paid, or unless division (A)(5)(b) of section 5731.21 of the Revised Code applies to them, a lien upon all property subject to the taxes. This lien: (1) Is discharged, as to property applied to costs and expenses of administration, property constituting the allowance made to the surviving spouse, ...

...No liability for the payment of taxes levied under Chapter 5731. of the Revised Code, including all interest and penalties thereon, may be determined as to the return required to be filed under section 5731.21 of the Revised Code, subsequent to three years after such return is filed, and as to the return required to be filed under section 5731.24 of the Revised Code, subsequent to three years after such return is fil...

... to, and the written permission of the tax commissioner is not required for asset transfers with respect to, decedents dying on or after January 1, 2013. (A) No corporation organized or existing under the laws of this state shall transfer on its books or issue a new certificate for any share of its capital stock registered in the name of a decedent, or in trust for a decedent, or in the name of a decedent an...

...The consent of the tax commissioner is not required in the case of the issuance, transfer, or delivery of any intangible personal property specified in section 5731.39 of the Revised Code, when the decedent is not domiciled in this state or when the intangible personal property is issued, transferred, or delivered to the surviving spouse of the decedent. In any action brought under section 5731.39 of the Revised Cod...

...5713. and 4503. of the Revised Code the tax commissioner may appoint agents in the unclassified civil service who shall perform such duties as are prescribed by the commissioner. Such agents shall, as compensation, receive annually eight cents per capita for each full one thousand of the first twenty thousand of the population of the county and two cents per capita for each full one thousand over twenty thousand of t...

...If, after the determination of any tax levied under this chapter, such tax remains unpaid, the tax commissioner shall notify the attorney general in writing of the nonpayment. The attorney general shall obtain from the tax commissioner a certified copy of the certificate of determination of the tax. Such certified copy of the certificate of determination of the tax shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the cou...

...attorney general, when requested by the tax commissioner, shall represent the state, the tax commissioner, and the county auditor in any proceedings under Chapter 5731. of the Revised Code. The tax commissioner, with the consent of the attorney general, may designate any attorney assigned to or employed by the estate tax division of the Department of Taxation to represent the tax commissioner, and no additional compe...

...y auditor may, and when directed by the tax commissioner shall, appoint such number of deputies as the tax commissioner prescribes for him, who shall be qualified to assist him in the performance of his duties under Chapter 5731. of the Revised Code.

...The tax commissioner may designate such of his examiners, experts, accountants, and other assistants as he deems necessary for the purpose of aiding in the administration of taxes levied under Chapter 5731. of the Revised Code; and the provisions of Chapter 5731. of the Revised Code shall be deemed a law which the tax commissioner is required to administer for the purposes of sections 5703.17 to 5703.37, inclusive, ...

...ep an account showing the amount of all taxes and interest received by the treasurer under Chapter 5731. of the Revised Code. On the twenty-fifth day of February of each year, the treasurer shall settle with the county auditor for all such taxes and interest so received in the preceding calendar year and not included in any prior settlement, showing for what estate, by whom, and when paid. At each such settlement the...

...unty auditor by a report filed with the tax commissioner. If the tax commissioner finds that those fees and expenses are correct and reasonable in amount, the tax commissioner shall indicate approval of the fees and expenses in writing to the county auditor. The county auditor shall pay those fees and expenses out of the undivided estate tax fund. The county auditor then shall deduct, from the amount required to be ...

...ty-four per cent of the gross amount of taxes levied and paid under this chapter shall be for the use of the municipal corporation or township in which the tax originates, and shall be credited as provided in division (A)(1), (2), or (3) of this section: (1) To the general revenue fund in the case of a city; (2) To the general revenue fund of a village or to the board of education of a village, for school purposes,...

...oration or township to which any of the taxes collected under this chapter and not previously accounted for, is due, a statement of the amount of such taxes due to each corporation or township in such county entitled to share in the distribution thereof. The amount due upon such settlement to each such municipal corporation or township, and to each municipal corporation and township in the county in which the taxes a...

...ersonal property within this state, the tax on the transfer thereof shall be deemed to have originated in the municipal corporation or township in which such property is physically located. In case of real estate located in more than one municipal corporation or township, the tax on the transfer thereof, or of any interest therein, shall be apportioned between the municipal corporation or townships in which it is loc...

...The tax on the transfer of intangible property or tangible personal property not within this state from a resident of this state shall be deemed to have originated in the municipal corporation or township in which the decedent was domiciled. The municipal corporation or township in which the tax on the transfer of the intangible property of a nonresident accruing under Chapter 5731. of the Revised Code shall be deem...

...n of a probate court, the department of taxation, a county auditor or county treasurer, the fiscal officer of a municipal corporation or township, the attorney general, or other authorized person as specified in this chapter, the following and any of their contents are confidential; are not subject to inspection or copying as public records pursuant to section 149.43 of the Revised Code; and may be inspected or copie...

..., or any lawful rule promulgated by the tax commissioner under authority of this chapter, for the violation of which no other penalty is provided in this chapter, shall be fined not less than one hundred or more than five thousand dollars.

...egarded entity's payroll, property, and sales factors shall be included in the person's factors. (G) The tax a corporation is required to pay under this chapter shall be as follows: (1)(a) For financial institutions, the greater of the minimum payment required under division (E) of section 5733.06 of the Revised Code or the difference between all taxes charged the financial institution under this chapter, without r...

...Annually, for tax years prior to tax year 2014, between the first day of January and the thirty-first day of March or on or before the date as extended under section 5733.13 of the Revised Code, each taxpayer shall make a report in writing to the tax commissioner in such form as the tax commissioner prescribes, and shall remit to the commissioner, with the remittance made payable to the treasurer of state, the ...

...(A) Each taxpayer that does not in January of any year prior to 2014 file the report and make the payment required by section 5733.02 of the Revised Code shall make and file a declaration of estimated tax report for the tax year. The declaration of estimated tax report shall be filed with the tax commissioner on or before the last day of January in such form as prescribed by the tax commissioner, and shall ref...

...t to division (C) of this section, if a taxpayer's total liability for taxes imposed by section 5733.06 of the Revised Code, after reduction for all nonrefundable credits allowed the taxpayer, exceeds fifty thousand dollars, the taxpayer shall remit each tax payment for the tax year electronically as prescribed by divisions (B) and (C) of this section. The tax commissioner shall notify each taxpayer required to re...

...ncludes the first day of January of the tax year: (A) The name of the corporation; (B) The name of the state or country under the laws of which it is incorporated; (C) The location of its principal office and, in the case of a foreign corporation, the location of its principal place of business in this state and the name and address of the officer or agent of the corporation in charge of the business in this state...

...(A) A corporation's taxable year is a period ending on the date immediately preceding the date of commencement of the corporation's annual accounting period that includes the first day of January of the tax year. Except as otherwise provided, a corporation's taxable year is the same as the corporation's taxable year for federal income tax purposes. If a corporation's taxable year is changed for federal income tax pur...

...ttributable to the following: (i) The maintenance, management, ownership, acquisition, use, and disposition of its intangible property, its aircraft the use of which is not subject to regulation under 14 C.F.R. part 121 or part 135, and any real property described in division (L)(2)(c) of this section; (ii) The collection and distribution of income from such property. (c) The corporation is not a financial inst...

...owing adjustments: (A) For each of the tax years 1984 to 1988, in the case of a corporation whose 1982 franchise tax was charged on the base calculated under division (B) of section 5733.05 of the Revised Code, deduct one-fifth of the amount of the adjustment, if any, required by division (A)(1) of this section as it existed prior to July 1, 1983 for tax year 1982. (B) For each of the tax years 1985 to 1989, in the...

...ll factor multiplied by twenty, and the sales factor multiplied by sixty. The denominator of the fraction is one hundred, provided that the denominator shall be reduced by twenty if the property factor has a denominator of zero, by twenty if the payroll factor has a denominator of zero, and by sixty if the sales factor has a denominator of zero. The property, payroll, and sales factors shall be determined as follow...

...ributions from a domestic international sales corporation, shall be allocated to this state by multiplying such dividends and distributions by a fraction. The numerator of the fraction is the book value of the physical assets in this state of the payor or, if the payor is a member of a modified qualifying controlled group on the last day of the payor's fiscal or calendar year ending immediately prior to the day on wh...

...(A) At the discretion of the tax commissioner, any taxpayer that owns or controls either directly or indirectly more than fifty per cent of the capital stock with voting rights of one or more other corporations, or has more than fifty per cent of its capital stock with voting rights owned or controlled either directly or indirectly by another corporation, or by related interests that own or control either directly or...

... shall add such income in computing its tax for the same tax year or years that such income would have been reported by the transferor if the transfer had not been made. The transferee shall add such income only to the extent the income is not required to be reported by the transferor for the purposes of the tax imposed by divisions (A) and (B) of section 5733.06 of the Revised Code. (C) The following shall be deter...

... apportioned to other states imposing a tax on or measured by net income, in accordance with the other states' allocation and apportionment rules, exceeds the amount of such gain added to net income pursuant to divisions (I)(12)(a) and (b) of section 5733.04 of the Revised Code. However, in no event shall the deduction provided by this division exceed the amount of such gain allocated or apportioned to this state. (...

...portioned to other states that impose a tax on or measured by income, in accordance with the other states' allocation and apportionment rules; (b) The related member's net intangible income actually allocated and apportioned to other states that impose a tax on or measured by income, in accordance with the other states' allocation and apportionment rules. For purposes of division (A)(2) of this section, "other st...

... factor multiplied by fifteen, and the sales factor multiplied by seventy. The denominator of the fraction is one hundred, provided that the denominator shall be reduced by fifteen if the property factor has a denominator of zero, by fifteen if the payroll factor has a denominator of zero, and by seventy if the sales factor has a denominator of zero. (D) A financial institution shall calculate the property fa...

...me or loss, property, compensation, and sales, the person's entire distributive share or proportionate share of the items of business income, nonbusiness income, adjusted qualifying amounts, allocable income or loss, apportionable income or loss, property, compensation, and sales of any pass-through entity in which the person has a direct or indirect ownership interest at any time during the pass-through entity's cal...

...lculation of its property, payroll, and sales factors, as defined in divisions (B)(2)(a) to (c) of section 5733.05 of the Revised Code, the corporation's proportionate share of the property, payroll, and sales attributable to the exempted investment, but only to the extent the corporation's proportionate share of the property, payroll, and sales attributable to the exempted investment would be included in the calcula...

...to the ratio of the wire mileage of the taxpayer's transmission lines located in this state divided by the wire mileage of the taxpayer's transmission lines located everywhere. Transmission wire mileage shall be weighted for the voltage capacity of each line. (2) Sales of the distribution of electricity are in this state in proportion to the ratio of the wire mileage of the taxpayer's distribution lines located in ...

... event, the person uses the installment sales method to recognize gain over more than one year, the adjustments required by divisions (B)(1) and (2) of this section shall not be made entirely in the tax year immediately following the taxable year in which the qualifying taxable event occurred but shall be made in part in such tax year and in subsequent tax years in proportion to the gain recognized for federal income...

...ion: (1) "Qualifying telephone company taxpayer" means either of the following: (a) A telephone company, but only if the telephone company was subject to the tax imposed by section 5727.30 of the Revised Code for gross receipts received during the period from July 1, 2003, to June 30, 2004, and the telephone company's property subject to taxation under Chapter 5727. of the Revised Code for tax years 2003 through 20...

...For tax years prior to tax year 2014, the tax hereby charged each corporation subject to this chapter shall be the greater of the sum of divisions (A) and (B) of this section, after the reduction, if any, provided by division (J) of this section, or division (C) of this section, after the reduction, if any, provided by division (J) of this section, except that the tax hereby charged each financial institution subject...

...A credit shall be allowed against the tax imposed by section 5733.06 of the Revised Code for each taxable year. The credit shall be claimed in the order required under section 5733.98 of the Revised Code. The credit shall equal the lesser of the amount of tax due under that section after allowing for any other credits that precede the credit under this section in that order or the difference between: (A) The tangibl...

...is hereby allowed a credit against the tax imposed under sections 5733.06, 5733.065, and 5733.066 of the Revised Code. The credit shall equal the lesser of fifty per cent of any cash donations made during the taxable year by the taxpayer to an Ohio corporation organized prior to January 1, 1987, whose sole purpose is to promote and encourage recycling and that has been determined by the internal revenue service...

...n, there is hereby levied an additional tax on corporations for the privilege of manufacturing or selling litter stream products in this state. The tax imposed by this section is in addition to the tax charged under section 5733.06 of the Revised Code, computed at the rate prescribed by section 5733.066 of the Revised Code. (C) The tax shall be imposed upon each corporation subject to the tax imposed by section 5733...

...n upon that portion of the value of the taxpayer's issued and outstanding shares of stock as determined under division (B) of section 5733.05 of the Revised Code that is subject to such rate, an additional eleven-hundredths per cent upon that value to provide funding for recycling and litter prevention; (B) To the rate in division (B) of that section upon that portion of the value so determined that is subject to th...

...ed either directly or indirectly by the taxpayer, or by related interests that own or control either directly or indirectly more than fifty per cent of the capital stock with voting rights of the taxpayer; (2) Its tax is charged and paid under division (C) of section 5733.06 of the Revised Code. (B) For tax year 1990 and each subsequent tax year prior to tax year 1999, a taxpayer whose tax is charged and paid under...

...d is ascertained on the last day of the taxable year. (2) "Excess tax" means the difference, if any, between the amount described in division (A)(2)(a) of this section and the amount described in division (A)(2)(b) of this section: (a) The tax imposed by section 5733.06 of the Revised Code for the tax year without regard to any credits provided by the Revised Code; (b) The tax imposed by section 5733.06 of the Rev...

...enue Code is considered to apply to any taxpayer, not just an FSC as that term is defined under section 922 of the Internal Revenue Code. (b) In the case of sales of tangible personal property, the taxpayer establishes by preponderance of the evidence that the property is not received by the purchaser within the United States. If the property is delivered by common carrier or by other means of transportation, the pl...

...(A) A refundable corporation franchise tax credit granted by the tax credit authority under section 122.17 or former division (B)(2) or (3) of section 122.171 of the Revised Code, as those divisions existed before the effective date of the amendment of this section by H.B. 64 of the 131st general assembly, may be claimed under this chapter in the order required under section 5733.98 of the Revised Code. For purposes...

...owed a nonrefundable credit against the tax imposed under section 5733.06 of the Revised Code. The credit shall be equal to the taxpayer's proportionate share of the lesser of either the tax due or the tax paid by any qualifying entity under section 5733.41 of the Revised Code for the qualifying taxable year of the qualifying entity that ends in the taxable year of the taxpayer. The taxpayer shall claim the credit fo...

...The tax commissioner shall enforce and administer this chapter. In addition to any other powers conferred upon him by law, the commissioner may: (A) Prescribe all forms required to be filed pursuant to this chapter; (B) Promulgate such rules and regulations as he finds necessary to carry out this chapter; (C) Appoint and employ such personnel as are necessary to carry out the duties imposed upon him by this chapte...

...ing with respect to such property; (b) Sales by the corporation or a related member of the corporation of property produced at and shipped or distributed from the premises of a commercial printer with which the corporation or the corporation's related member has a contract for printing with respect to such property or the premises of a commercial printer's related member with which the corporation or the corporation...

... required to make any return or pay any tax under this chapter.

...ommissioner, and all laws applicable to sales on execution shall apply to sales made under the judgment. If the assessment is not paid within sixty days after the day the assessment was issued, the portion of the assessment consisting of tax due shall bear interest at the rate per annum prescribed by section 5703.47 of the Revised Code from the day the tax commissioner issues the assessment until the assessment...

...(A) All payments received from the taxes imposed under sections 5733.06 and 5733.41 of the Revised Code shall be credited to the general revenue fund. (B) Except as otherwise provided under divisions (C) and (D) of this section, an application to refund to the corporation the amount of taxes imposed under section 5733.06 of the Revised Code that are overpaid, paid illegally or erroneously, or paid on any illega...

... Code is indebted to this state for any tax, workers' compensation premium due under section 4123.35 of the Revised Code, unemployment compensation contribution due under section 4141.25 of the Revised Code, unemployment compensation payment in lieu of contribution under section 4141.241 of the Revised Code, certified claim under section 131.02 or 131.021 of the Revised Code, or fee that is paid to the state or to th...

...The tax commissioner may extend to any corporation a further specified time within which to file the report required to be filed by section 5733.02 of the Revised Code to the thirty-first day of May of the tax year or to the fifteenth day of the month following the due date, including extensions thereof, for the filing of the federal corporate income tax return for the taxable year.

...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 corporations, the increase or decrease of the capital stock or the dissolution of existing corporations, and such other information as the commissioner requires. For the purpose of obtaining the necessary information, the secretary of state or the commissioner shall have acces...

...ed to file its first report and pay the tax in and for the calendar year immediately succeeding the date of its organization, and each foreign corporation shall similarly report and pay in and for the calendar year immediately succeeding its admission. Failure on the part of any foreign corporation for profit and any foreign corporation not for profit referred to in section 5733.01 of the Revised Code to proceed acco...

...ake reports and pay excise or franchise taxes in accordance with law.

...file any report or return or to pay any tax or fee as a corporation organized under the laws of the state for profit, or as a foreign corporation for profit doing business in this state or owning or issuing a part or all of its capital or property in this state, fails or neglects 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 retu...

...o make a report or return or to pay any tax or fee. A penalty of one hundred dollars shall be imposed for each day a violation of this section occurs, up to a maximum of five thousand dollars.

...make any report or return or to pay any tax or fee, shall be reinstated and again entitled to exercise its rights, privileges, and franchises in this state, and the secretary of state shall cancel the entry of cancellation to exercise its rights, privileges, and franchises upon compliance with all of the following: (a) Payment to the secretary of state of any additional fees and penalties required to be paid to the ...

...her remedies for the collection of any taxes or penalties due under law, whenever any taxes, fees, or penalties due from any corporation have remained unpaid for a period of ninety days, or whenever any corporation 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 o...

...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 corporation has its principal place of business to forfeit and annul its privileges and franchises. If the court is satisfied that any such corporation is in default, it shall render judgment ousting such corporation from the exercise of its privileges and franchises w...

...on 5733.261 of the Revised Code, if the tax imposed by sections 5733.06, 5733.065, and 5733.066 of the Revised Code for the tax year, reduced by the credits listed in section 5733.98 of the Revised Code, 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....

...rpayment" means an amount received by a taxpayer in excess of a refund or request for payment claimed or made by or on behalf of the taxpayer on a return, report, or other document filed with the tax commissioner. (B) A taxpayer is not liable for any interest or penalty with respect to the repayment of a qualifying refund overpayment if the taxpayer pays the entire amount of the overpayment to the tax commissioner n...

... returns, statements, or reports to the tax commissioner shall file therewith, 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 corporation 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, con...

...lowing penalties shall apply: (1) If a taxpayer required to file any report, including an informational notice or report, under this chapter fails to make and file the report within the time prescribed, including any extensions of time granted by the tax commissioner, a penalty may be imposed not exceeding the greater of fifty dollars per month or fraction of a month, not to exceed five hundred dollars, or five per ...

...se of any underpayment of the estimated tax provided under section 5733.021 of the Revised Code, there shall be added to the tax for the tax year 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: (1) The amount of the estimated tax payment which would ...

...riginal use of which commences with the taxpayer or with a partnership of which the taxpayer is a partner. (8) "Purchase" has the same meaning as in section 179(d)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code. (B) A nonrefundable credit is allowed against the tax imposed by section 5733.06 of the Revised Code for a taxpayer that purchases new manufacturing machinery or equipment that the taxpayer locates in this state and uses ...

...riginal use of which commences with the taxpayer or with a partnership of which the taxpayer is a partner. (8) "Purchase" has the same meaning as in section 179(d)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code. (B) A nonrefundable credit is allowed against the tax imposed by section 5733.06 of the Revised Code for a taxpayer that purchases new manufacturing machinery or equipment that the taxpayer locates in this state and uses ...

...efundable credit is allowed against the tax imposed by section 5733.06 of the Revised Code for a taxpayer engaged in the business of producing grapes that purchases qualifying property on or after January 1, 1994. The amount of the credit equals ten per cent of the cost of purchasing and installing or constructing the qualifying property. The taxpayer shall claim the credit for the taxable year in which the qualifyin...

... this state of which commences with the taxpayer or with a partnership of which the taxpayer is a partner. "New manufacturing machinery and equipment" does not include property acquired after December 31, 1999, that is used: (a) For the transmission and distribution of electricity; (b) For the generation of electricity, if fifty per cent or more of the electricity that the property generates is consumed, during t...

...and is not classified as an association taxable as a corporation for federal income tax purposes. (2) "Partner" includes a member of a limited liability company if the limited liability company is not treated as a corporation for purposes of this chapter and is not classified as an association taxable as a corporation for federal income tax purposes. (B)(1) A nonrefundable credit is allowed against the tax imposed ...

...efundable credit is allowed against the tax imposed by section 5733.06 of the Revised Code for tax year 2002 for a taxpayer whose taxable year for tax year 2002 ended before July 1, 2001. The credit shall equal seven per cent of the excess of qualified research expenses incurred in this state by the taxpayer between January 1, 2001, and the end of the taxable year, over the taxpayer's average annual qualified r...

... whether the borrower is subject to the taxes imposed by sections 5733.06, 5733.065, and 5733.066 of the Revised Code. (2) "Related member" has the same meaning as in section 5733.042 of the Revised Code. (3) "Qualified research and development loan payments" has the same meaning as in division (D) of section 166.21 of the Revised Code. (B) Beginning with tax year 2004, and in the case of a corporation subject to ...

...This section applies only to tax years 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2003. A nonrefundable credit is allowed against the tax imposed by sections 5733.06, 5733.065, and 5733.066 of the Revised Code for a taxpayer that enters into an agreement with a child care center pursuant to this section. Under the terms of the agreement, the taxpayer must make one or more support payments to the center on a periodic basis, and t...

...efundable credit is allowed against the tax imposed by sections 5733.06, 5733.065, and 5733.066 of the Revised Code equal to the lesser of one hundred thousand dollars, or fifty per cent of the amount incurred by a taxpayer for equipment, supplies, labor, and real property, including renovation of real property, used exclusively to establish a child care center. The credit is allowed only for the tax year immediately...

...This section applies only to tax years 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2003. A nonrefundable credit is allowed against the tax imposed by sections 5733.06, 5733.065, and 5733.066 of the Revised Code equal to fifty per cent of the amount incurred by a taxpayer during the taxable year immediately preceding the tax year to reimburse employees of the taxpayer for child care expenses. The amount of the credit for a tax yea...

...owed a nonrefundable credit against the tax imposed by section 5733.06 of the Revised Code for Ohio coal used in any of its coal-fired electric generating units after April 30, 2001, but before January 1, 2010. Section 5733.057 of the Revised Code shall apply when calculating the credit allowed by this section. The credit shall be claimed at the following rates per ton of Ohio coal burned in a coal-fired electric ...

... gain from acquisition, ownership, use, maintenance, management, or disposition of tangible personal property located in this state at any time during the qualifying trust's qualifying taxable year or of real property located in this state. (C) "Qualifying beneficiary" means any individual that, during the qualifying taxable year of a qualifying trust, is a beneficiary of that trust, but does not include an individ...

...hrough entity having for its qualifying taxable year at least ninety per cent of its gross income from transaction fees in connection with the acquisition, ownership, or disposition of intangible property, loan fees, financing fees, consent fees, waiver fees, application fees, net management fees, dividend income, interest income, net capital gains from the sale or exchange of intangible property, or distributive sha...

... (B), (C), and (D) of this section, for taxable years beginning after 1997, a qualifying pass-through entity, hereinafter the "exempt entity," is not subject to the taxes imposed by and required to be paid under those sections with respect to distributive shares of income and gain that pass through from the qualifying pass-through entity to another qualifying pass-through entity, hereinafter the "investing entity," i...

...The purpose of the tax imposed by this section is to complement and to reinforce the tax imposed under section 5733.06 of the Revised Code. For the same purposes for which the tax is levied under section 5733.06 of the Revised Code, there is hereby levied a tax on every qualifying pass-through entity having at least one qualifying investor that is not an individual. The tax imposed by this section is imposed on the...

...hem to perform other job duties for the taxpayer. Eligible training programs do not include executive, management, or personal enrichment training programs, or training programs intended exclusively for personal career development. (2) "Eligible employee" means an individual who is employed in this state by a taxpayer and has been so employed by the same taxpayer for at least one hundred eighty consecutive days bef...

...irst day of the financial institution's tax year. (B) For tax years 2002 and thereafter, there is hereby allowed to each financial institution a nonrefundable credit against the tax imposed by section 5733.06 of the Revised Code. The amount of the credit shall be computed in accordance with division (C) of this section. The credit shall be claimed in the order prescribed by section 5733.98 of the Revised Code. The c...

...allowed a refundable credit against the tax imposed under section 5733.06 of the Revised Code for a taxpayer that is a certificate owner of a rehabilitation tax credit certificate issued under section 149.311 of the Revised Code. The credit shall equal twenty-five per cent of the dollar amount indicated on the certificate, but shall not exceed five million dollars. The credit shall be claimed for the tax year...

...Upon the issuance of a tax credit certificate by the Ohio venture capital authority under section 150.07 of the Revised Code, a refundable credit may be claimed against the tax imposed by section 5733.06 of the Revised Code. The credit shall be claimed for the tax year specified in the certificate issued by the authority and in the order required under section 5733.98 of the Revised Code.

...f the Revised Code. (B) Beginning in tax year 2005, a telephone company shall be allowed a nonrefundable credit against the tax imposed by section 5733.06 of the Revised Code equal to the amount of its eligible nonrecurring 9-1-1 charges. The credit shall be claimed for the company's taxable year that covers the period in which the 9-1-1 service for which the credit is claimed becomes available for use. The credit...

...(A)(1) For tax year 2005, a taxpayer that provides any telephone service program to aid persons with communicative impairments in accessing the telephone network under section 4905.79 of the Revised Code is allowed a nonrefundable credit against the tax imposed by section 5733.06 of the Revised Code. The amount of the credit is the cost incurred by the taxpayer for providing the telephone service program during its t...

...alendar year immediately preceding the tax year, and is an "incumbent local exchange carrier" under 47 U.S.C. 251(h). (2) "Gross receipts tax amount" means the product obtained by multiplying four and three-fourths per cent by the amount of a small telephone company's taxable gross receipts, excluding the deduction of twenty-five thousand dollars, that the tax commissioner would have determined under section 5...

...owed a nonrefundable credit against the tax imposed by section 5733.06 of the Revised Code for a financial institution holding a qualified equity investment on the credit allowance date occurring in the calendar year immediately preceding the tax year for which the tax is due. The credit shall be computed in the same manner prescribed for the computation of credits allowed under section 5725.33 of the Revised Code. ...

...) There is allowed a credit against the tax imposed by section 5733.06 of the Revised Code for any corporation that is the certificate owner of a tax credit certificate issued under section 122.85 of the Revised Code. The credit shall be claimed for the taxable year in which the certificate is issued by the director of development. The credit amount equals the amount stated in the certificate. The credit shall ...

...3.32 of the Revised Code; The export sales credit under section 5733.069 of the Revised Code; The enterprise zone credits under section 5709.65 of the Revised Code; The credit for using Ohio coal under section 5733.39 of the Revised Code; The credit for purchases of qualified low-income community investments under section 5733.58 of the Revised Code; The credit for small telephone companies under secti...

...Whoever violates section 5733.21 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than one hundred nor more than one thousand dollars.

...urpose of construction, reconstruction, maintenance, or repair. (G) "Waters within the boundaries of this state" means all streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, water courses, and all other bodies of surface water, natural or artificial, which are situated wholly or partially within this state or within its jurisdiction, except private impounded bodies of water. (H) "Person" includes individuals, partnerships, firms, ass...

...For the purposes of this chapter, amounts of liquid natural gas and compressed natural gas shall be measured in gallon equivalents as follows: (A) The diesel gallon equivalent standard for liquid natural gas shall be the equivalent of one gallon of motor fuel; (B) The diesel gallon equivalent standard for compressed natural gas is one hundred thirty-nine and thirty one-hundredths cubic feet, which equals six and th...

...olds an unrevoked license issued by the tax commissioner to engage in such business. (B) To procure a motor fuel dealer's license, every motor fuel dealer shall file with the commissioner an application verified under oath by the applicant and in such form as the commissioner prescribes, setting forth, in addition to such other information required by the commissioner, the following: (1) The name under which the mo...

...l dealer, and who wishes to collect the tax imposed by this chapter on behalf of any person who is not a licensed motor fuel dealer may obtain a permissive motor fuel dealer's license. Application for and possession of a permissive motor fuel dealer's license shall not in itself subject the applicant or licensee to the jurisdiction of this state for any purpose other than administration and enforcement of this chapt...

...for each retail location, issued by the tax commissioner to engage in such business. To obtain a retail dealer's license, a person shall file with the tax commissioner an application sworn to under oath by that person. The application shall include the following: (1) The name under which the retail dealer will transact business within the state; (2) The location, including street number address, of the retail deale...

... 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...

...ensed as an aviation fuel dealer by the tax commissioner to engage in such activities. (B) The failure to register with the commissioner as an aviation fuel dealer does not relieve a person from the requirement to file returns under this title. (C) No person shall make a false or fraudulent statement on the application required by this section. (D) Each aviation fuel dealer shall file a report with the commi...

...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 ...

... or fails to pay the full amount of the tax as required by the motor fuel laws of the state or as may be agreed upon by the tax commissioner and the motor fuel dealer, the commissioner may revoke the license of the motor fuel dealer, and notify the motor fuel dealer in writing of such revocation in the manner provided in section 5703.37 of the Revised Code. The commissioner may cancel any license issued to any mot...

...(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...

...fuel dealer to make accurate reports of sales of motor fuel or to pay the taxes, penalties, and interest. If the license of any permissive motor fuel dealer is canceled by the commissioner under this section, and the permissive motor fuel dealer has paid to the state all motor fuel taxes due and payable by the permissive motor fuel dealer under the laws of this state or assumed by the permissive motor fuel dealer ...

...section shall be used for construction, maintenance, and repair of roads and bridges, the operational costs of applicable state agencies, or used to match other revenue for these purposes. (E) Except as otherwise provided by division (F) of this section, the rates of tax imposed by this section on each gallon of motor fuel on and after July 1, 2019, shall be as follows: (1) Thirty-eight and one-half cents on each g...

...d for the construction, reconstruction, maintenance, and repair of turnpike projects, except that the funds may not be expended for the construction of new interchanges. The funds also may be expended for the construction, reconstruction, maintenance, and repair of those portions of connecting public roads that serve existing interchanges and are determined by the commission and the director of transportation to be n...

...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...

...business hours to the inspection of the tax commissioner, and shall be preserved for a period of four years, unless the commissioner, in writing, consents to their destruction within that period, or by order requires that they be kept for a longer period. No person shall refuse to provide such records and documents to the tax commissioner or any person employed by the commissioner for the purpose of inspecting such ...

... dealer, shall sell or dispose of any untaxed motor fuel without the prior written permission of the tax commissioner. Upon investigation, the commissioner shall determine whether any tax shall be imposed on the transaction. Full and complete documentation shall be submitted by the seller to the commissioner upon the commissioner's request. Failure to obtain prior approval from the commissioner regarding the sale or...

...Whenever the tax commissioner discovers any motor fuel subject to the taxes levied under Chapter 5735. of the Revised Code and upon which the taxes have not been paid, the commissioner may seize and take possession of the motor fuel. The motor fuel shall be forfeited to the state, and the commissioner, within a reasonable time thereafter, may sell the forfeited motor fuel. The commissioner shall collect the taxes du...

...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...

...ommissioner, and all laws applicable to sales on execution shall apply to sales made under the judgment. If the assessment is not paid in its entirety within sixty days after the day the assessment was issued, the portion of the assessment consisting of tax due shall bear interest at the rate per annum prescribed by section 5703.47 of the Revised Code from the day the commissioner issues the assessment until it...

...(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...

...ty in the operation of a motor vehicle. Sales of motor fuel, on which the tax imposed by this chapter has been paid, from one person to another do not constitute use of the fuel and are not subject to a refund under this section. (B) Any person who uses in this state any motor fuel with water intentionally added to the fuel, on which the taxes imposed by this chapter or Chapter 5728. of the Revised Code have been pa...

...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...

...n who uses any motor fuel, on which the tax imposed by section 5735.05 of the Revised Code has been paid, for the purpose of operating a transit bus shall be reimbursed in the amount of the total tax paid on motor fuel so used by public transportation systems providing transit or paratransit service on a regular and continuing basis within the state, or by a person contracting with such a system and providing such se...

...hapter is indebted to the state for any tax or fee administered by the tax commissioner that is paid to the state or to the clerk of courts pursuant to section 4505.06 of the Revised Code, or any charge, penalty, or interest arising from such a tax or fee, the amount refundable may be applied in satisfaction of the debt. If the amount refundable is less than the amount of the debt, it may be applied in partial satisf...

...e liability to the state for the excise tax imposed under the motor fuel laws of this state on such motor fuel has been assumed by the seller, and that said excise tax has already been paid or will be paid by the seller when the same becomes payable. The documentation also shall set forth the name and address of the purchaser, the number of gallons of motor fuel sold, the price paid for or the price per gallon of the...

...who purchases motor fuel upon which the tax has been paid to this state and who sells the same outside this state for use outside this state or who uses the same on highways or waters outside this state and pays a tax on such use or sells the same to the United States government or any of its agencies may be reimbursed in the amount of such tax as provided in this chapter. All applications for refund of the tax paid ...

...(A) The tax commissioner may examine, during the usual business hours of the day, the records, books, invoices, storage tanks, and any other equipment of any motor fuel dealer, retail dealer, exporter, terminal operator, purchaser, aviation fuel dealer, or transporter pertaining to motor fuel received, sold, shipped, or delivered, to determine whether the taxes imposed by this chapter have been paid and to verify the...

...to collect or cause to be repaid to the taxpayer or to any other person, either directly or indirectly, any refund of such tax without being entitled to the same; (2) Engage in business in the state as a motor fuel dealer without holding an unrevoked license to engage in such business; (3) Engage in business in the state as a retail dealer without holding an unrevoked license to engage in such business; (4) Engage...

...information that, in the opinion of the tax commissioner, is necessary for the proper administration of this chapter. (B) A terminal or bulk plant, the carrier, and the person that received the motor fuel shall retain a copy of the shipping document for a period of four years after the date of receipt of the fuel and shall provide a copy of the document to the tax commissioner upon request. (C) While transporting m...

...ing, construction, purchase, lease, and maintenance of suitable buildings for the housing and repair of county road machinery, housing of supplies, and housing of personnel associated with the machinery and supplies; the payment of costs apportioned to the county under section 4907.47 of the Revised Code; the payment of principal, interest, and charges on bonds and other obligations issued pursuant to Chapter 133. of...

...Wherever a municipal corporation is on the line of the state highway system as designated by the director of transportation as an extension or continuance of the state highway system, seven and one-half per cent of the amount paid to any municipal corporation pursuant to sections 4501.04 and 5735.27 of the Revised Code shall be used by it only to construct, reconstruct, repave, widen, maintain, and repair such highwa...

...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 that...

...continues operating that business, the taxes and any interest and penalties imposed under this chapter that arose prior to the date of sale or discontinuation become due and payable immediately. Within fifteen days after the date of the sale or discontinuation of the business, the motor fuel dealer shall make a final return and provide written notification to the tax commissioner of the sale or discontinuation...

..., required to file reports and to remit taxes imposed under this chapter fails for any reason to file such reports or pay such taxes, any employees of the person having control or supervision of, or charged with the responsibility of, filing reports and making payments, or any officers or trustees of the person responsible for the execution of the person's fiscal responsibilities, are personally liable for the ...

...02 of the Revised Code when levying the tax imposed by that section in conjunction with sections 5739.021, 5739.023, 5739.026, 5741.021, 5741.022, and 5741.023 of the Revised Code, or as provided in section 5739.101 of the Revised Code, no political subdivision shall levy or collect any excise, license, privilege, or occupational tax on alternative fuel or on the buying, selling, handling, or consuming of alternative...

...ves funding derived from the motor fuel tax levied under Chapter 5735. of the Revised Code, and either expends the funds on a project that takes more than seven business days to complete, or expends $500,000 or more of the funds, shall include on that agency or entity's web site annual status updates on how the funds are being used. Such information may include how much money is spent, when the money is spent, on wha...

...tion: (1) "Rate of federal motor fuel tax" means the rate of tax levied under section 4081 of the Internal Revenue Code on one gallon of gasoline other than aviation gasoline or one gallon of diesel fuel, as those terms are defined in section 4083 of the Internal Revenue Code. (2) "Rate of state motor fuel tax" means the rate of tax levied under section 5735.05 of the Revised Code on one gallon of gasoline or one...

...misdemeanor of the first degree, if the tax owed or the fraudulent refund received is not greater than five hundred dollars. If the tax owed or the fraudulent refund received is greater than five hundred dollars but not greater than ten thousand dollars, the offender is guilty of a felony of the fourth degree; for each subsequent offense when the tax owed or the fraudulent refund received is greater than five hundred...

...licensed motor vehicles employed in the maintenance, construction, or repair of public highways. "Motor fuel used to propel vehicles on public highways and waterways" does not include dyed diesel fuel. (G) "Rack" means a mechanism capable of delivering motor fuel from a refinery, terminal, or marine vessel into a railroad tank car, transport truck, tank wagon, fuel supply tank, marine vessel, or other means of trans...

...(A) Beginning with the tax period that commences July 1, 2014, and continuing for every tax period thereafter, there is hereby levied an excise tax on each supplier measured by the supplier's calculated gross receipts derived from the first sale of motor fuel within this state. The tax due shall be computed by multiplying sixty-five one-hundredths of one per cent by the supplier's calculated gross receipts. All reve...

...(A) No person shall avoid the tax imposed by this chapter by receiving motor fuel outside of this state and transferring the motor fuel into this state within one year. Any such person shall be considered to have received the fuel in this state and shall include, in the calculation of calculated gross receipts, the number of gallons of motor fuel the person transfers into this state within one year after the pe...