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...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.

...s section may require an annual service payment to be made in addition to the service payment required under division (G) of this section. The sum of the service payment required in the resolution and the service payment required under division (G) of this section shall not exceed nine thousand dollars per megawatt of nameplate capacity located in the county. The resolution shall specify the time and manner in which ...

...that meets all the requirements of, and pays the excise tax in accordance with, division (C) of section 5727.81 of the Revised Code. (K) "Natural gas distribution company" means a natural gas company or a combined company that is subject to the excise tax imposed by section 5727.24 of the Revised Code and that distributes natural gas through a meter of an end user in this state or to an unmetered location in this s...

...the electric distribution company shall pay the tax to the tax commissioner in accordance with section 5727.82 of the Revised Code, unless required to remit each tax payment electronically in accordance with section 5727.83 of the Revised Code. Only the distribution of electricity through a meter of an end user in this state shall be used by the electric distribution company to compute the amount or estimated amou...

... natural gas distribution company shall pay the tax levied by this section to the tax commissioner in accordance with section 5727.82 of the Revised Code unless required to remit payment in accordance with section 5727.83 of the Revised Code. (C) A natural gas distribution company with seventy thousand customers or less may elect to apply the rates specified in division (A) of this section to the aggregate of the ...

...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 ...

...ssessing 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 electronic ...

...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...

...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.

...nd user that fails to file a return or pay any tax, interest, or additional charge as required by sections 5727.80 to 5727.95 of the Revised Code. When information in the possession of the tax commissioner indicates that a person liable for the tax imposed by section 5727.81 or 5727.811 of the Revised Code has not paid the full amount of tax due, the commissioner may audit a representative sample of the pers...

...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; (...

... four years of the illegal or erroneous payment. On the filing of the application, the commissioner shall determine the amount of refund to which the applicant is entitled. If the amount is not less than that claimed, the commissioner shall certify that amount to the treasurer of state for payment from the tax refund fund under section 5703.052 of the Revised Code. If the amount is less than that claimed, the comm...

...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...

... of an electric distribution company to pay the tax imposed by section 5727.81 of the Revised Code, failure of a natural gas distribution company to pay the tax imposed by section 5727.811 of the Revised Code, or failure of an electric distribution company or a natural gas distribution company to comply with sections 5727.80 and 5727.82 to 5727.95 of the Revised Code. A company whose registration is denied may petiti...

...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.

...As used in sections 5728.02 to 5728.14 of the Revised Code: (A) "Motor vehicle" means everything on wheels that is self-propelled, other than by muscular power or power collected from electric trolley wires and other than vehicles or machinery not designed for or employed in general highway transportation, used to transport or propel persons or property over a public highway. (B) "Commercial car" means any m...

...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...