Title 57, Title 57. Taxation

No determinations, computations, certifications, or payments shall be made under this section after June 30, 2015.(A) By the thirty-first day of July of each year, beginning in 2002 and ending in 2010, the department of education shall determine the following for each school dist…

No determinations, computations, certifications, or payments shall be made under this section after June 30, 2015.(A) The tax commissioner shall compute the payments to be made to each local taxing unit, and to each public library that receives the proceeds of a tax levied under …

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 infor…

(A) The tax commissioner may make an assessment, based on any information in the commissioner's possession, against any natural gas distribution company, electric distribution company, self-assessing purchaser, or qualified end user that fails to file a return or pay any tax, int…

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 assess…

(A) The treasurer of state shall refund the amount of tax paid under section 5727.81 or 5727.811 of the Revised Code that was paid illegally or erroneously, or paid on an illegal or erroneous assessment, or any penalty assessed with respect to such taxes. A natural gas distributi…

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 a…

(A) No person shall distribute electricity or natural gas to a meter of an end user in this state or to an unmetered location in this state if that person is not registered with the tax commissioner as an electric distribution company or a natural gas distribution company.(B) Eac…

Each electric distribution 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 r…

(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 retu…

(A) Whoever violates section 5727.55 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than one hundred nor more than one thousand dollars.(B) Whoever violates section 5727.71 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars and imprisoned not more than thirty days…

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 gene…

(A) Except as provided in section 5728.03 of the Revised Code, 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 …

(A) In lieu of filing an application for an annual fuel use permit under section 5728.02 of the Revised Code and in lieu of filing returns under section 5728.08 of the Revised Code, a person who is the owner of a commercial car or a commercial tractor that would otherwise be liab…

(A) It is unlawful for any person to operate a commercial car or a commercial 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 perm…

The tax commissioner may enter into cooperative reciprocal agreements providing for the imposition of fuel use taxes on an apportionment or allocation basis with the proper authority of any state, any commonwealth, the District of Columbia, a state or province of a foreign countr…

(A) For the following purposes, an excise tax is hereby imposed on the use of motor fuel to operate on the public highways of this state a commercial car with three or more axles, regardless of weight, operated alone or as part of a commercial tandem, a commercial car with two ax…

The treasurer of state shall refund the amount of fuel use taxes overpaid, paid illegally or erroneously, or paid on any illegal or erroneous assessment, or any penalty assessed with respect to such taxes. Applications for refund shall be filed with the tax commissioner, on the f…

Every person who is or becomes liable for the payment of the tax levied in section 5728.06 of the Revised Code shall maintain detailed distance and fuel records for each commercial car and commercial tractor owned, leased, rented, or otherwise operated by such person. Such record…

Except as provided in section 5728.03 of the Revised Code and except as otherwise provided in division (A) of section 5728.06 of the Revised Code, whoever is liable for the payment of the tax levied by section 5728.06 of the Revised Code, on or before the last day of each January…

(A) Any person who fails to file timely the return required by section 5728.08 of the Revised Code may be required to pay an additional charge equal to the greater of fifty dollars or ten per cent of the tax due. The tax commissioner may adopt rules providing for the imposition a…

(A) If any person required to file a fuel use tax return by sections 5728.01 to 5728.14 of the Revised Code, fails to file the return within the time prescribed by those sections, files an incomplete return, files an incorrect return, or fails to remit the full amount of the tax …

(A) Sixty days after service of an assessment under section 5728.10 of the Revised Code, or when the tax commissioner files a certified copy of an entry making an assessment as provided in that section, the commissioner shall suspend all fuel use permits issued to the person agai…

Any non-resident of this state who accepts the privilege extended by the laws of this state to non-residents of operating a commercial car or commercial tractor, which is subject to the tax levied in section 5728.06 of the Revised Code, or of having the same operated within this …

Sections 5728.02 to 5728.12 of the Revised Code do not apply to motor vehicles, commercial cars, or commercial tractors owned and operated by the United States, by this state or any political subdivisions thereof, or by any other state or its political subdivisions if that state …

In addition to any other powers conferred upon him by law the tax commissioner shall have the following powers:(A) To prescribe all forms required to be filed with the treasurer of state or the tax commissioner pursuant to sections 5728.01 to 5728.14 of the Revised Code;(B) To ap…

(A) As used in this section, "peace officer" has the same meaning as in section 2935.01 of the Revised Code.(B) A peace officer, law enforcement agency employing a peace officer, and the state or any political subdivision associated with a peace officer are not liable in damages …

(A)(1) If any person, regardless of organizational form, required to file reports and remit taxes imposed under this chapter fails for any reason to file such reports or remit such taxes, any employees of the person having control or supervision of, or charged with the responsibi…

(A)(1) Except as provided in division (A)(2) of this section, whoever violates any provision of sections 5728.01 to 5728.14 of the Revised Code, or any rule promulgated by the tax commissioner under the authority of any provision of those sections, for the violation of which no p…

(A) "Return premiums," as used in sections 5729.02 and 5729.03 of the Revised Code, does not include the cash surrender values under policies or contracts of life or endowment insurance.(B) "Foreign insurance company," as used in sections 5729.02, 5729.05, 5729.11, and 5729.14 of…

(A) Subject to division (B) of this section, every foreign insurance company shall set forth in its annual statement to the superintendent of insurance the gross amount of premiums received by it from policies covering risks within this state during the preceding calendar year, l…

(A) If the superintendent of insurance finds the annual statement required by section 5729.02 of the Revised Code to be correct, the superintendent shall compute the following amount, as applicable, of the balance of such gross amount, after deducting such return premiums and con…

As used in this section, "insurance company" includes any health insuring corporation as defined in section 1751.01 of the Revised Code; "insurance company group" means two or more insurance companies that are owned by a common owner or two or more insurance companies among which…

Upon the issuance of a tax credit certificate by the director of development, a refundable credit granted by the tax credit authority under section 122.17 of the Revised Code may be claimed against the tax imposed by section 5729.03 of the Revised Code. The credit shall be claime…

To compute franchise taxes on gross premiums to be paid under any law of this state by any mutual insurance company authorized to do business under the laws of this state, or by any stock insurance company so authorized, doing business on the plan of distributing back to its poli…

On or before the fifteenth day of October each year, each foreign insurance company shall pay to the treasurer of state an amount equal to one-half of the previous calendar year's tax, before credits, which was assessed and paid under section 3737.71 of the Revised Code and this …

If the laws of another state, territory, or nation authorize charges for the privilege of doing business therein or taxes against insurance companies organized in this state exceeding the charges provided in sections 5729.01 to 5729.15, inclusive, of the Revised Code, like amount…

As used in this section:(A) "Eligible employee" and "eligible training costs" have the same meanings as in section 5733.42 of the Revised Code.(B) "Credit period" means the calendar year ending on the thirty-first day of December next preceding the day the annual statement is req…

Upon the issuance of a tax credit certificate by the Ohio venture capital authority under section 150.07 of the Revised Code, a refundable credit may be claimed against the tax imposed on a foreign insurance company under section 5729.03 of the Revised Code. The credit shall be c…

The superintendent of insurance, annually and at such other times as he sees fit, shall require the president or other chief officer of each company or association to file a statement under oath showing the names of each fire insurance company or association with whom or for whom…

If a company fails to pay the tax levied by section 5729.03 of the Revised Code, or to make any partial payment thereof as required by law after a statement thereof has been made and mailed to it, or if the annual statement required by law to be made by it is false or incorrect, …

For the purposes of this section, interest shall be computed at a rate per calendar month, rounded to the nearest one-hundredth of one per cent, equal to one-twelfth of the rate per annum prescribed by section 5703.47 of the Revised Code for the calendar year that includes the mo…

(A) An application to refund to a foreign insurance company any taxes imposed by section 3737.71 of the Revised Code or amounts imposed under this chapter that are overpaid, paid illegally or erroneously, or paid on any illegal, erroneous, or excessive assessment, with interest t…

If any foreign insurance company refuses to pay the tax levied by section 5729.03 of the Revised Code upon demand being made therefor, it shall be liable to the state at the suit of the attorney general to a penalty of not more than five hundred dollars per month for each month i…

When notice of a violation of sections 5729.07 to 5729.09, inclusive, and section 5729.13 of the Revised Code, is received by the superintendent of insurance, he shall forthwith visit the office of the company where such contract of insurance has been written or made and demand a…

Any company which violates sections 5729.07 to 5729.09, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall, upon notice and satisfactory proof being made to the superintendent of insurance, have its authority to transact business in this state revoked for a period of not less than ninety days…