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...(A) The legislative authority of a municipal corporation, by ordinance or resolution, or of a township, by resolution, may declare the municipal corporation or township to be a resort area for the purposes of this section, if all of the following criteria are met: (1) According to statistics published by the federal government based on data compiled during the most recent decennial census of the United States, at l...

...A person who is liable for a tax levied under section 5739.101 of the Revised Code shall file a return with the tax commissioner showing the person's taxable gross receipts from sales described under division (B)(1) or (2) or (C) of that section. The tax commissioner shall prescribe the form of the return, and the six- or twelve-month reporting period. The person shall file the return on or before the last day of the...

...No person shall exercise the privilege of engaging in a business described under division (B)(1) or (2) or (C) of section 5739.101 of the Revised Code in a municipal corporation or township that has imposed a tax under division (B) or (C) of that section without first registering with the tax commissioner. The tax commissioner shall prescribe the form of the registration.

... The tax commissioner shall refund to a person subject to a tax under section 5739.101 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 commissioner, on a form prescribed by the commissioner, within four years from the date of the illegal or erroneous payment, except where the person subject to the tax waives the...

...As used in this section, "food service operator" means a vendor who conducts a food service operation under Chapter 3717. of the Revised Code. Each vendor shall keep complete and accurate records of sales, together with a record of the tax collected on the sales, which shall be the amount due under sections 5739.01 to 5739.31 of the Revised Code, and shall keep all invoices, bills of lading, and other such pertinent...

...(A)(1) Each person who has or is required to have a vendor's license, on or before the twenty-third day of each month, shall make and file a return for the preceding month in the form prescribed by the tax commissioner, and shall pay the tax shown on the return to be due. The return shall be filed electronically using the Ohio business gateway, as defined in section 718.01 of the Revised Code, the Ohio telefile syste...

... (A) As used in this section: (1) "Bad debt" means any debt that has become worthless or uncollectible in the time period between a vendor's preceding return and the present return, has been uncollected for at least six months, and that may be claimed as a deduction pursuant to the "Internal Revenue Code of 1954," 68A Stat. 50, 26 U.S.C. 166, as amended, and regulations adopted pursuant thereto, or that could be cl...

...(A) If the total amount of tax required to be paid by a vendor under section 5739.12 of the Revised Code for any calendar year equals or exceeds seventy-five thousand dollars, the vendor shall remit each monthly tax payment in the second ensuing and each succeeding tax year on an accelerated basis as prescribed by divisions (B) and (C) of this section. If a vendor's tax payment for each of two consecutive years...

...(A) If required by the tax commissioner, a permit holder required to make payments under section 5739.032 of the Revised Code shall file all returns and reports electronically. The commissioner may require the permit holder to use the Ohio business gateway, as defined in section 718.01 of the Revised Code, or any other electronic means approved by the commissioner, to file the returns and reports, or to remit the tax...

...(A) If any vendor collects the tax imposed by or pursuant to section 5739.02, 5739.021, 5739.023, or 5739.026 of the Revised Code, and fails to remit the tax to the state as prescribed, or on the sale of a motor vehicle, watercraft, or outboard motor required to be titled, fails to remit payment to a clerk of a court of common pleas as provided in section 1548.06 or 4505.06 of the Revised Code, the vendor shall...

...Any nonresident of this state who accepts the privilege extended by the laws of this state to nonresidents of engaging in the business of selling in this state, as defined in section 5741.01 of the Revised Code, and any resident of this state who is required by sections 5739.17 and 5739.31 of the Revised Code to have a vendor's license and subsequently becomes a nonresident or conceals the person's whereabouts, m...

...(A) If a tax, fee, or charge due under this chapter or Chapter 128. or 5741. of the Revised Code is not paid on or before the day the payment is required to be paid, interest shall accrue on the unpaid tax, fee, or charge at the rate per annum prescribed by section 5703.47 of the Revised Code from the day the tax, fee, or charge was required to be paid until the tax, fee, or charge is paid or until the day an assessm...

...(A) A penalty may be added to every amount assessed under section 5739.13 or 5739.15 of the Revised Code as follows: (1) In the case of an assessment against a person who fails to collect and remit the tax required by this chapter or Chapter 5741. of the Revised Code, up to fifty per cent of the amount assessed; (2) In the case of a person whom the tax commissioner believes has collected the tax but failed to remit...

...If any person liable for the taxes levied by or pursuant to sections 5739.01 to 5739.31, inclusive, of the Revised Code, sells his business or stock of merchandise, or quits his business, the taxes and interest or penalty imposed by or pursuant to such sections on sales made prior to that time shall become due and payable immediately, and such person shall make a final return within fifteen days after the date of sel...

...(A) If the tax commissioner finds that a vendor, consumer, or officer, employee, or trustee of a corporation or business trust who is liable for any tax or charge levied by this chapter or Chapter 5741. of the Revised Code is about to depart from the state, remove the person's property from the state, conceal the person's self or property, or do any other act tending to prejudice, obstruct, or render wholly or part...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in this section, no assessment shall be made or issued against a vendor or consumer for any tax imposed by or pursuant to section 5739.02, 5739.021, 5739.023, 5739.026, or 5739.10 of the Revised Code more than four years after the return date for the period in which the sale or purchase was made, or more than four years after the return for such period is filed, whichever is later. A ...

... (A) No person shall engage in making retail sales subject to a tax imposed by or pursuant to section 5739.02, 5739.021, 5739.023, or 5739.026 of the Revised Code as a business without having a license therefor, except as otherwise provided in divisions (A)(1), (2), and (3) of this section. (1) In the dissolution of a partnership by death, the surviving partner may operate under the license of the partnership for ...

...The tax commissioner shall provide and maintain a system that will allow county auditors to issue vendor's licenses. County auditors shall use that system to issue vendor's licenses. The commissioner shall publish lists of the following information on the department of taxation's web site: (A) The name, account number, and business address of each holder of a vendor's license issued under section 5739.17 of the Rev...

... The tax commissioner may revoke any retail vendor's license upon ascertaining that the vendor has no need for the license because the vendor is not engaged in making taxable retail sales. Notice of the revocation shall be delivered to the vendor in the manner provided in section 5703.37 of the Revised Code. The revocation shall be effective on the first day of the month following the expiration of fifteen days after...

... (A) One hundred per cent of all money deposited into the state treasury under sections 5739.01 to 5739.31 of the Revised Code that is not required to be distributed as provided in section 5739.102 of the Revised Code or division (B) of this section shall be credited to the general revenue fund. (B)(1) In any case where any county or transit authority has levied a tax or taxes pursuant to section 5739.021, 5739.023...

...(A) The moneys received by a county levying an additional sales tax pursuant to section 5739.021 of the Revised Code shall be deposited in the county general fund to be expended for any purpose for which general fund moneys of the county may be used, including the acquisition or construction of permanent improvements or to make payments in accordance with section 333.06 or 333.07 of the Revised Code, or in the bond r...

... (A) As used in this section: (1) "Tourism development district" means a tourism development district designated by a township or municipal corporation under section 503.56 or 715.014 of the Revised Code, respectively. (2) "Incremental sales tax growth" means one of the following: (a) For a county, the amount of revenue from a tax levied under section 5739.021 or 5739.026 of the Revised Code, except for a tax levi...

...No consumer shall refuse to pay the full and exact tax as required by sections 5739.01 to 5739.31, inclusive, of the Revised Code, or refuse to comply with such sections and the rules and regulations of the tax commissioner, or present to the vendor a false certificate indicating that the sale is not subject to the tax.

...No vendor shall fail to collect the full and exact tax as required by sections 5739.01 to 5739.31, inclusive, of the Revised Code, or fail to comply with such sections and the rules and regulations of the tax commissioner or, except as expressly authorized by such sections, refund, remit, or rebate, to a consumer, either directly or indirectly and, by whatsoever means, any of the tax levied by sections 5739.01 to 573...

... (A) No person, including any officer, employee, or trustee of a corporation or business trust, shall fail to file any return or report required to be filed by this chapter, 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) If any vendor required to file monthly returns und...