Ohio Code 5736.14 – Personal liability
(A)(1) If any person, regardless of organizational form, required to file reports and to remit taxes imposed under this chapter fails for any reason to file such reports or pay such taxes, any employees of the person having control or supervision of, or charged with the responsibility of, filing reports and making payments, or any officers or trustees of the person responsible for the execution of the person’s fiscal responsibilities, are personally liable for the failure.
Terms Used In Ohio Code 5736.14
- Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
- Person: includes an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, and association. See Ohio Code 1.59
- Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
(2) The dissolution, termination, or bankruptcy of a person shall not discharge a responsible officer’s, shareholder’s, member’s, manager’s, employee’s, or trustee‘s liability for failure of the person to file reports or remit taxes. The sum due for the liability may be collected by assessment in the manner provided in section 5736.09 of the Revised Code.
(B) If more than one individual is personally liable under this section for the unpaid tax of a person, then the liability of all such individuals shall be joint and several.