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...ission shall not be required to pay any taxes or assessments upon any bridge or upon any property acquired or used by the commission under Chapter 5593. of the Revised Code, or upon the income therefrom, and the bonds issued under such chapter, their transfer, and the income therefrom, including any profit made on the sale thereof, shall at all times be free from taxation within the state.

...A township, municipal corporation, or county may declare improvements made within the development area of a qualified RTIP to be for a public purpose and exempt from taxation pursuant to section 5709.40, 5709.41, 5709.73, or 5709.78 of the Revised Code, as authorized under those sections.

...y be required to pay any state or local taxes or assessments upon any improvement, or upon revenue or any property acquired or used by the governing board of the project under this chapter, or upon the income therefrom. The securities issued under this chapter, their transfer, and the income therefrom, including any profit made on the sale thereof, shall at all times be free from taxation within the state.

...As used in Title LVII of the Revised Code: (A) "Personal property" includes every tangible thing that is the subject of ownership, whether animate or inanimate, including a business fixture, and that does not constitute real property as defined in section 5701.02 of the Revised Code. "Personal property" also includes every share, portion, right, or interest, either legal or equitable, in and to every ship, vessel, o...

...nts payable of the business, other than taxes and assessments. (B) "Current accounts" includes items receivable or payable on demand or within one year from the date of inception, however evidenced. (C) "Prepaid items" does not include tangible property. The sum of current accounts payable shall not take into account an acknowledgment of indebtedness, unless founded on some consideration actually received, and bel...

...For purposes of Title LVII of the Revised Code: (A) In order to determine a limited liability company's nonprofit status, an entity is operating with a nonprofit purpose under section 1705.02 of the Revised Code or carrying on any nonprofit activity under section 1706.05 of the Revised Code if that entity is organized other than for the pecuniary gain or profit of, and its net earnings or any part of its net earnin...

...There is hereby created the department of taxation which shall be composed of the tax commissioner and his employees, agents, and representatives. Such commissioner shall perform such functions, exercise such powers, and discharge such duties as are assigned to him by law.

...The tax commissioner shall prescribe the form that the signature and declaration, if any, shall take on any document required to be filed with the commissioner and on any document required under Chapter 718., 3734., 3769., 4303., or 4305. or Title LVII of the Revised Code to be filed with the treasurer of state. The commissioner may authorize an electronic or other alternative form of filing of any document required ...

...A person may, and if required by the tax commissioner shall, round to the nearest whole dollar all amounts the person is required to enter on any return, report, voucher, or other document. Any fractional part of a dollar that equals or exceeds fifty cents shall be rounded to the next whole dollar, and any fractional part of a dollar that is less than fifty cents shall be dropped. If a person chooses or is required t...

...The tax commissioner may require any employee employed by him to furnish bond to the state in such amount as he prescribes, with surety to the satisfaction of the treasurer of state, conditioned on the faithful performance of the duties of the employee and compliance to all the laws of the state and rules, regulations, and orders of the commissioner. Bonds authorized under this section shall be filed with the treas...

...Each member of the board of tax appeals shall receive a salary fixed pursuant to division (J) of section 124.15 of the Revised Code for each day spent in the discharge of his official duties and shall be reimbursed for his actual and necessary expenses incurred in the discharge of such duties.

...A majority of the board of tax appeals shall constitute a quorum to transact business, and any vacancy does not impair the right of the remaining members to exercise all the powers of the board so long as a majority remains. Any investigation, inquiry, or hearing which the board is authorized to hold or undertake may be held or undertaken by or before any one member of the board. All investigations, inquiries, heari...

...All actions of the tax commissioner or of the privileges, powers, duties, obligations, immunities, and liabilities of other persons or officers shall be in the name of the department of taxation.

...The tax commissioner and every agent provided for in section 5703.17 of the Revised Code may, for the purposes of the laws relating to taxation, administer oaths, certify to official acts, issue subpoenas, compel the attendance of witnesses, and the production of books, accounts, papers, records, documents, and testimony.

...The tax commissioner may require, by order or subpoena served on any company, firm, corporation, person, association, partnership, limited liability company, or public utility in the same manner that a summons is served in a civil action in the court of common pleas, the production within this state, at the time and place the commissioner designates, of any books, accounts, papers, or records kept by that company, fi...

...(A) The tax commissioner shall adopt rules under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code that, except as otherwise provided in division (B) of this section, require that any search of any of the databases of the department of taxation be tracked so that administrators of the database or investigators can identify each account holder who conducted a search of the database. (B) The rules adopted under division (A) of this s...

...Each company, firm, corporation, person, association, partnership, or public utility shall furnish the tax commissioner in the returns prescribed by him all information required by law and all other facts and information which the commissioner requires to enable him to carry into effect the laws which he is required to administer, and shall make specific answers to all questions submitted by the commissioner. The an...

...Any company, firm, corporation, person, association, partnership, or public utility which receives from the tax commissioner any blanks with directions to fill them out shall fill them out so as to answer fully and correctly each question therein propounded, and if it is unable to answer any question, it shall in writing give a good reason for such failure.

...Whenever a taxpayer or other person refuses, on the basis of his privilege against self-incrimination, to testify or provide other information in an examination or proceeding before the tax commissioner, and the commissioner communicates to the taxpayer or other person an order issued under this section, the taxpayer or other person may not refuse to comply with the order on the basis of his privilege against self-in...

...If any company, firm, corporation, person, association, partnership, or public utility fails to make out and deliver to the tax commissioner any statement required by law, or to furnish the commissioner with any information requested, the commissioner shall inform himself as best he can on the matters necessary to be known in order to discharge his duties.

...No injunction shall issue suspending or staying any order, determination, or direction of the department of taxation, or any action of the treasurer of state or attorney general required by law to be taken in pursuance of any such order, determination, or direction. This section does not affect any right or defense in any action to collect any tax or penalty.

...At the request of any officer, board, or commission of the state or any political division thereof, the department of taxation shall furnish any information to such officer, board, or commission, and shall assist such officer, board, or commission in performing the duties of its office. All state, county, and local officers shall make and forward to the department, upon the department's written order, such transcript...

...No officer, agent, or employee of of any public utility, company, firm, person, partnership, corporation, or association, subject to any law which the tax commissioner is required to administer shall fail to fill out and return any blanks required by such law, fail to answer any questions therein propounded, or knowingly or willfully give a false answer to any such question where the fact inquired of is within his kn...

...Every day during which any public utility, company, corporation, association, firm, partnership, officer, or individual subject to any law which the tax commissioner is required to administer, or any officer, agent, or employee thereof, willfully fails to comply with any order or direction of the commissioner or to perform any duty enjoined by such law shall constitute a separate offense.

...Any payment or distribution of money that the tax commissioner is required by law to make to a political subdivision of this state, an officer thereof, or a political party shall be made by electronic funds transfer. The commissioner shall promulgate any rules necessary to administer this section.