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...The department of taxation shall keep its office in Columbus and shall provide suitable rooms, necessary office furniture, supplies, books, periodicals, and maps. All necessary expenses shall be audited and paid as are other expenses. The department may hold sessions at any place within the state. The department may establish as many branch offices in different parts of the state as are convenient for the purpose of...

...The department of taxation shall be open for the transaction of business during the business hours of every day, except Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays.

... of the Revised Code for the purpose of paying the costs the department incurs in conducting audits of persons who have registered motor vehicles under the international registration plan shall be deposited in the state treasury to the credit of the international registration plan auditing fund, which is hereby created.

...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...

...ny rule adopted and promulgated by the tax commissioner may be filed with the board of tax appeals by any person who has been or may be injured by the operation of the rule. The appeal may be taken at any time after the rule is filed with the secretary of the state, the director of the legislative service commission, and, if applicable, the joint committee on agency rule review. Failure to file an appeal does ...

...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 department of taxation shall adopt reasonable rules and regulations to govern its proceedings and to regulate the manner of all valuations of real or personal property, apportionments, investigations, inspections, and hearings not specifically provided for.

...ic utility subject to the laws that the tax commissioner is required to administer, the commissioner may appoint by an order in writing an agent, a tax auditor agent, or a tax auditor agent manager, whose duties shall be prescribed in the order. In the discharge of such an agent's duties, the agent shall have every power of an inquisitorial nature granted by law to the commissioner and the same powers as a notary ...

...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.

...y out the purposes of the laws that the tax commissioner is required to administer, the commissioner or any person employed by the commissioner for that purpose, upon demand, may inspect books, accounts, records, and memoranda of any person or public utility subject to those laws, and may examine under oath any officer, agent, or employee of that person or public utility. Any person other than the commissioner who ma...

...ion; for each day it so fails, it shall pay into the state treasury a sum of not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars.

... the Revised Code, a holder of a direct payment permit issued pursuant to section 5739.031 of the Revised Code, or a seller having a use tax account maintained pursuant to section 5741.17 of the Revised Code, or information regarding the active or inactive status of a vendor's license, direct payment permit, or seller's use tax account; (5) Providing to a county auditor notices or documents concerning or affecting...

...(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...

...The department of taxation may conduct any number of investigations contemporaneously through different agents, and may delegate to any such agent the taking of all testimony bearing upon any investigation or hearing. The decision of the department shall be based upon its examination of all testimony and records. The recommendations made by an agent shall be advisory only, and do not preclude the taking of further te...

...Upon the request of the department of taxation, the attorney general shall aid in any investigation, hearing, or trial had under the laws which the department is required to administer, shall institute and prosecute all necessary actions for the enforcement of such laws, and for the punishment of all violations thereof. The prosecuting attorney of any county shall, upon the request of the department and under the dir...

...ip, 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 answers to such questions shall be verified by the signature of s...

...All tax returns, claims, or reports with respect to taxes, including accompanying schedules and statements, which are required by law to be filed with the department of taxation, the treasurer of state, a county auditor, or a county treasurer need not be sworn to. Any such return, claim, or report shall have printed on it the following statement, which shall be subscribed to by the person signing such return, claim, ...

... law to be filed with the department of taxation, the treasurer of state, a county auditor, a county treasurer, or a county clerk of courts, or knowingly procure, counsel, or advise the preparation or presentation of such report, return, schedule, statement, claim, or document, or knowingly change, alter, or amend, or knowingly procure, counsel, or advise such change, alteration, or amendment of the records upon whic...

...13.40 of the Revised Code. (B) If a taxpayer or employer required by any tax administered by the department of taxation to pay taxes, penalties, interest, or other charges arising from unpaid taxes makes payment of the taxes, penalties, interest, or other charges with a dishonored instrument, an instrument that is determined to be nonnegotiable, or with any financial transaction device that is declined, return...

...y official or department concerning any tax administered by the department of taxation. (2) "Preparer" means any person who, for compensation, prepares for another, or assists another in preparing, any document. (B) The tax commissioner may designate documents that must be signed by preparers. If a preparer fails to sign a document designated by the commissioner and the unsigned document is submitted to the intende...

...oys another person to prepare, for a taxpayer a tax return or application for refund in exchange for compensation or remuneration from the taxpayer or the taxpayer's related member. The preparation of a substantial portion of a tax return or application for refund shall be considered to be the same as the preparation of the return or application for refund. "Tax return preparer" does not include an individual who per...

... 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.

... order or subpoena of the department of taxation, or on the refusal of a witness to testify to any matter regarding which he is lawfully interrogated before the department, the court of common pleas of the county in which such person resides, or a judge thereof, on application of the department, shall compel obedience by attachment proceedings as for contempt in the case of disobedience of a subpoena issued from such...

...s who appears before the department of taxation by its order shall receive for the witness's attendance the fees and mileage provided for under section 119.094 of the Revised Code, which shall be audited and paid by the state in the same manner as other expenses, upon the presentation of proper vouchers approved by the department. A witness subpoenaed at the instance of parties other than the department sh...

...on who appears before the department of taxation or the board of tax appeals by its order in relation to the appraisal of property in any taxing district shall be allowed and paid out of the treasury of the proper county, if that person is an officer of any such taxing district or a member of any county board of revision, his actual and necessary traveling expenses. The expenses shall be itemized and sworn to by the ...