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...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...

...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...

...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, ...

...No person shall knowingly make, present, aid, or assist in the preparation or presentation of a false or fraudulent report, return, schedule, statement, claim, or document authorized or required by 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 r...

... (A) As used in this section: (1) "Instrument" has the same meaning as in section 1303.03 of the Revised Code. (2) "Financial transaction device" has the same meaning as in section 113.40 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, pen...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Document" means any report, return, schedule, statement, claim, or other document intended for submission to any state or county 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 docum...

...(A)(1) "Tax return preparer" means any person other than an accountant or an attorney that operates a business that prepares, or directly or indirectly employs 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...

...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.

...In case of disobedience by any person to an 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 ...

...Each officer who serves a summons or subpoena shall receive the same fees as a sheriff, and each witness 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 appr...

...A person 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 b...

...The department of taxation may order any officer in whom any powers are vested or upon whom any duties are imposed by any laws which the department is required to administer to appear before it for conference concerning the administration of such laws. Except as provided in section 5703.30 of the Revised Code, the department shall allow and pay from any appropriation to the department available for such purpose the a...

...In an investigation the department of taxation or any party may cause depositions of witnesses residing within or without the state to be taken in the manner prescribed by law for like depositions in civil actions in courts of common pleas.

...A transcribed copy of the evidence and proceedings, or any specific part thereof, of any investigation which is taken by a stenographer appointed by the department of taxation and which is certified by such stenographer to be a true and correct transcript of all the testimony in the investigation, or of a particular witness, or of a specific part thereof, carefully compared by him with his original notes, and stated ...

...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...

...The department of taxation shall cause to be prepared suitable blanks for carrying out the purposes of the laws which it is required to administer, and, on application, shall furnish such blanks to each company, firm, corporation, person, association, partnership, or public utility subject to such laws. The tax commissioner, when he deems it advisable, may extend to any company, firm, corporation, person, associatio...

...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.

... (A)(1) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, whenever service of a notice or order is required in the manner provided in this section, a copy of the notice or order shall be served upon the person affected thereby either by personal service, by certified mail, or by a delivery service authorized under section 5703.056 of the Revised Code that notifies the tax commissioner of the date of delivery. (2...

...For purposes of sections 718.80 to 718.95 and Title LVII of the Revised Code, any foreign corporation, owning or using a part or all of its capital or property in this state, which is not authorized by the secretary of state to transact business in this state, shall be conclusively presumed to have designated the secretary of state as its agent for the service of process in any action against such corporation to reco...

...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.

...In addition to the other remedies provided by law for the prevention and punishment of any violation of the laws which the department of taxation is required to administer or the orders of the department, such laws and orders may upon the application of the department be enforced by proceedings in mandamus, injunction, or other appropriate proceeding.

...The department of taxation may adopt rules governing the interchange of information with the proper officer, board, department, ministry, or commission of any other state, the United States, any province of Canada, or Canada, and may, pursuant to such rules, furnish any information in its possession to any such officer, board, department, ministry, or commission under reciprocal arrangements by which the department s...

...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...

...The annual report of the department of taxation shall include a full report of the operation and execution of all laws which it is required to administer.