Ohio Code 5741.121 – Tax payments by electronic funds transfer
(A) If the total amount of tax required to be paid by a seller or consumer under section 5741.12 of the Revised Code for any year equals or exceeds seventy-five thousand dollars, the seller or consumer shall remit each monthly tax payment in the second ensuing and each succeeding year on an accelerated basis as prescribed by division (B) of this section.
Terms Used In Ohio Code 5741.121
- Consumer: means any person who has purchased tangible personal property or has been provided a service for storage, use, or other consumption or benefit in this state. See Ohio Code 5741.01
- Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
- Seller: means the person from whom a purchase is made, and includes every person engaged in this state or elsewhere in the business of selling tangible personal property or providing a service for storage, use, or other consumption or benefit in this state; and when, in the opinion of the tax commissioner, it is necessary for the efficient administration of this chapter, to regard any salesperson, representative, peddler, or canvasser as the agent of a dealer, distributor, supervisor, or employer under whom the person operates, or from whom the person obtains tangible personal property, sold by the person for storage, use, or other consumption in this state, irrespective of whether or not the person is making such sales on the person's own behalf, or on behalf of such dealer, distributor, supervisor, or employer, the commissioner may regard the person as such agent, and may regard such dealer, distributor, supervisor, or employer as the seller. See Ohio Code 5741.01
If a seller’s or consumer’s tax payment for each of two consecutive years is less than seventy-five thousand dollars, the seller or consumer is relieved of the requirement to remit taxes on an accelerated basis for the year that next follows the second of the consecutive years in which the tax payment is less than that amount, and is relieved of that requirement for each succeeding year, unless the tax payment in a subsequent year equals or exceeds seventy-five thousand dollars.
The tax commissioner shall notify each seller or consumer required to make accelerated tax payments of the seller’s or consumer’s obligation to do so and shall maintain an updated list of those sellers and consumers. Failure by the tax commissioner to notify a seller or consumer subject to this section to remit taxes on an accelerated basis does not relieve the seller or consumer of the obligation to remit taxes as provided under division (B) of this section.
(B) Sellers and consumers required by division (A) of this section to make accelerated tax payments shall electronically remit such payments to the tax commissioner, in a manner approved by the commissioner, as follows:
(1) On or before the twenty-third day of each month, a seller or consumer shall remit an amount equal to seventy-five per cent of the anticipated tax liability for that month.
(2) On or before the twenty-third day of each month, a seller shall report the taxes collected and a consumer shall report the taxes due for the previous month and shall remit that amount, less any amounts paid for that month as required by division (B)(1) of this section.
The payment of taxes on an accelerated basis under this section does not affect a seller’s or consumer’s obligation to file returns and pay the tax shown on the returns to be due as required under section 5741.12 of the Revised Code.
(C) A seller or consumer required by this section to remit taxes on an accelerated basis may apply to the tax commissioner in the manner prescribed by the commissioner to be excused from that requirement. The commissioner may excuse the seller or consumer from remittance on an accelerated basis for good cause shown for the period of time requested by the seller or consumer or for a portion of that period.
(D)(1)(a) If a seller or consumer that is required to remit payments under division (B) of this section fails to make a payment required under division (B)(1) of this section, or makes a payment under division (B)(1) of this section that is less than seventy-five per cent of the actual liability for that month, the commissioner may impose an additional charge not to exceed five per cent of that unpaid amount.
(b) Division (D)(1)(a) of this section does not apply if the seller’s or consumer’s payment under division (B)(1) of this section is equal to or greater than seventy-five per cent of the seller’s or consumer’s reported liability for the same month in the immediately preceding calendar year.
(2) Any additional charge imposed under division (D)(1) of this section is in addition to any other penalty or charge imposed under this chapter, and shall be considered as revenue arising from taxes imposed under this chapter. An additional charge may be collected by assessment in the manner prescribed by section 5741.13 of the Revised Code. The tax commissioner may waive all or a portion of such a charge and may adopt rules governing such waiver.