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... In addition to the return required by section 5743.52 of the Revised Code, each retail dealer of tobacco products or vapor products in a county in which a tax is levied under section 5743.511 of the Revised Code shall, within thirty days after the date on which the tax takes effect, make and file a return, on a form prescribed by the tax commissioner, showing the total number of tobacco products or vapor products wh...

... (A) The treasurer of state shall refund to a taxpayer any of the following: (1) Amounts imposed under this chapter that were paid illegally or erroneously or paid on an illegal or erroneous assessment; (2) Any tax paid on tobacco products or vapor products that have been sold or shipped to retail dealers, wholesale dealers, or vapor distributors outside this state, returned to the manufacturer, or destroyed by...

... (A) Each distributor of tobacco products and each vapor distributor of vapor products shall maintain complete and accurate records of all purchases and sales of tobacco products or vapor products, and shall procure and retain all invoices, bills of lading, and other documents relating to the purchases and sales of those products. The distributor or vapor distributor shall keep open records and documents during busin...

... Whenever the tax commissioner discovers any tobacco products or vapor products, subject to the tax levied under section 5743.51, 5743.511, 5743.62, 5743.621, 5743.63, or 5743.631 of the Revised Code upon which the tax has not been paid or the commissioner has reason to believe the tax is being avoided, the commissioner may seize and take possession of the tobacco products or vapor products, which, upon seizure, shal...

... (A) Any person required to pay the tax imposed by section 5743.51, 5743.511, 5743.62, 5743.621, 5743.63, or 5743.631 of the Revised Code is personally liable for the tax. The tax commissioner may make an assessment, based upon any information in the commissioner's possession, against any person who fails to file a return or pay any tax, interest, or additional charge as required by this chapter. The commissioner sha...

... (A) If any corporation, limited liability company, or business trust required to file returns pursuant to section 5743.52, 5743.62, or 5743.63 of the Revised Code fails to remit to the state any tax due under section 5743.51, 5743.511, 5743.62, 5743.621, 5743.63, or 5743.631 of the Revised Code, any of its employees having control or supervision of or charged with the responsibility of filing returns and making paym...

...In addition to all other remedies for the collection of any taxes or fees legally due, the attorney general may issue a warrant directed to the sheriff of any county commanding the sheriff to levy upon and sell the nonexempt goods and chattels of a delinquent distributor found within his jurisdiction, for the payment of the amount of the delinquent taxes or fees, together with the added penalties, interest, and the c...

... (A) No retail dealer of tobacco products or vapor products shall have in the retail dealer's possession tobacco products or vapor products on which the tax imposed by section 5743.51 and, if applicable, section 5743.511 of the Revised Code has not been paid unless the retail dealer is licensed under section 5743.61 of the Revised Code. Payment may be evidenced by invoices from distributors or vapor distributors stat...

... No person shall prepare for shipment, ship, transport, deliver, prepare for distribution, or distribute tobacco products or vapor products, or otherwise engage or participate in the business of distributing tobacco products or vapor products, with the intent to avoid payment of the tax levied by section 5743.51, 5743.511, 5743.62, 5743.621, 5743.63, or 5743.631 of the Revised Code, when the wholesale price of the to...

... (A)(1) No distributor or vapor distributor shall engage in the business of distributing tobacco products, vapor products, or both within this state without having a license issued by the department of taxation to engage in that business. (2) On the dissolution of a partnership by death, the surviving partner may operate under the license of the partnership until the expiration of the license, and the heirs or leg...

... (A) To provide revenue for the general revenue fund of the state, an excise tax is hereby levied on the seller of tobacco products or vapor products in this state at one of the following rates: (1) For tobacco products other than little cigars or premium cigars, seventeen per cent of the wholesale price of the tobacco product whenever the tobacco product is delivered to a consumer in this state for the storage, u...

... For the same purposes for which it levies a tax under section 5743.511 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners of a county that levies a tax under that section shall adopt a resolution levying a tax at the same rate on the sellers of tobacco products or vapor products, as applicable, whenever the tobacco product or vapor product is delivered to a consumer in the county in which that tax is levied for ...

... (A) To provide revenue for the general revenue fund of the state, an excise tax is hereby levied on the storage, use, or other consumption of tobacco products or vapor products at one of the following rates: (1) For tobacco products other than little cigars or premium cigars, seventeen per cent of the wholesale price of the tobacco product. (2) For little cigars, thirty-seven per cent of the wholesale price of...

... For the same purposes for which it levies a tax under section 5743.511 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners of a county that levies a tax under that section shall adopt a resolution levying a tax at the same rate on the use, consumption, or storage for consumption of tobacco products or vapor products, as applicable, by consumers in the county in which that tax is levied. The tax shall take effect ...

... No person shall transport within this state tobacco products that have a wholesale value in excess of three hundred dollars, or vapor products with a vapor volume in excess of five hundred milliliters or five hundred grams, as applicable, unless the person has obtained consent to transport the tobacco products or vapor products from the tax commissioner prior to transportation. The consent is not required if the app...

... No person required by division (C) of section 5743.62 or division (B) of section 5743.63 of the Revised Code to file a return with the tax commissioner shall fail to make the return or fail to pay the applicable taxes levied under section 5743.62 or 5743.63 of the Revised Code or fail to pay any lawful assessment issued by the tax commissioner.

...(A) Each manufacturer or importer of tobacco products or vapor products shall register with the tax commissioner before it sells or distributes tobacco products or vapor products to distributors in this state, and, upon the request of the commissioner, shall provide complete information on sales made to distributors in this state and a current list of prices charged for tobacco products or vapor products sold to dist...

... If a person seeks to obtain cigarettes that are legal for sale in this state under section 1346.05 of the Revised Code, and such cigarettes are not reasonably available to that person at a retail location in this state, the person may apply to the tax commissioner for consent for consumer shipment. The consent for consumer shipment must be obtained prior to the purchase of the cigarettes. The consent for consumer s...

...(A)(1) Except as provided in division (A)(2) of this section, whoever violates section 5743.10, 5743.11, or 5743.12 or division (C) of section 5743.54 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree. If the offender has been previously convicted of an offense under this division, violation is a felony of the fourth degree. (2) Unless the total number of cigarettes exceeds one thousand two h...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Electric company," "combined company," and "telephone company," have the same meanings as in section 5727.01 of the Revised Code, except "telephone company" does not include a non profit corporation. (B) "Electric light company" has the same meaning as in section 4928.01 of the Revised Code, and includes the activities of a combined company as an electric company, but excludes nonprof...

...(A) The annual report filed under section 5745.03 of the Revised Code determines a taxpayer's Ohio net income and the portion of Ohio net income to be apportioned to a municipal corporation. (B) A taxpayer's Ohio net income is determined by multiplying the taxpayer's adjusted federal taxable income by the sum of the property factor multiplied by one-third, the payroll factor multiplied by one-third, and the sale...

... (A) For each taxable year, each taxpayer shall file an annual report with the tax commissioner not later than the fifteenth day of the fourth month after the end of the taxpayer's taxable year, and shall remit with that report the amount of tax due as shown on the report less the amount paid for the year under section 5745.04 of the Revised Code. The taxpayer shall remit any amount due with the report electronically...

...An electric light company that is not an electric company or a combined company may elect to be a taxpayer for the purposes of this chapter if not less than fifty per cent of the company's total sales in this state consist of electricity, as determined under section 5733.059 of the Revised Code, and other energy commodities during the taxpayer's most recently concluded taxable year. The company shall make the electio...

... (A) As used in this section, "combined tax liability" means the total of a taxpayer's income tax liabilities to all municipal corporations in this state for a taxable year. (B) Each taxpayer shall file a declaration of estimated tax report with, and remit estimated taxes to, the tax commissioner, payable to the treasurer of state, at the times and in the amounts prescribed in divisions (B)(1) to (4) of this secti...

... Any taxpayer required by section 5745.03 or 5745.04 of the Revised Code to remit tax payments electronically shall remit such payments in the manner prescribed by the tax commissioner. Except as otherwise provided in this paragraph, the payment of taxes electronically does not affect a taxpayer's obligation to file reports under this chapter. A taxpayer required to remit taxes electronically may apply to the tax ...