5739.05 Powers and duties of tax commissioner - payment by vendor on predetermined basis.
5739.05 Powers and duties of tax commissioner - payment by vendor on predetermined basis.
(A) The tax commissioner shall enforce and administer sections 5739.01 to 5739.31 of the Revised Code, which are hereby declared to be sections which the commissioner is required to administer within the meaning of sections 5703.17 to 5703.37, 5703.39, 5703.41, and 5703.45 of the Revised Code. The commissioner may adopt and promulgate, in accordance with sections 119.01 to 119.13 of the Revised Code, such rules as the commissioner deems necessary to administer sections 5739.01 to 5739.31 of the Revised Code.
(B) Upon application, the commissioner may authorize a vendor to pay on a predetermined basis the tax levied by or pursuant to section 5739.02, 5739.021, 5739.023, or 5739.026 of the Revised Code upon sales of things produced or distributed or services provided by such vendor, and the commissioner may waive the collection of the tax from the consumer. The commissioner shall not grant such authority unless the commissioner finds that the granting of the authority would improve compliance and increase the efficiency of the administration of the tax. The person to whom such authority is granted shall post a notice, if required by the commissioner, at the location where the product is offered for sale that the tax is included in the selling price. The comissioner may adopt rules to administer this division.
(C) The commissioner may authorize a vendor to pay, on the basis of a prearranged agreement under this division, the tax levied by section 5739.02 or pursuant to section 5739.021, 5739.023, or 5739.026 of the Revised Code, and waive the requirement that the vendor maintain the complete and accurate record of individual taxable sales and tax collected thereon required by section 5739.11 of the Revised Code, upon application of the vendor, if the commissioner finds that the conditions of the vendor-applicant’s business are such that the maintenance of such records of individual taxable sales and tax collected thereon would impose an unreasonable burden upon the vendor. If the commissioner determines that such unreasonable burden has been imposed, the vendor and the commissioner shall agree to the terms and conditions of a test check to be conducted. If the parties are unable to agree to the terms and conditions of the test check, the application shall be denied. The test check conducted shall determine the proportion that taxable retail sales bear to all of the vendor’s retail sales and the ratio which the tax required to be collected under sections 5739.02, 5739.021, and 5739.023 of the Revised Code bears to the receipts from the vendor’s taxable retail sales.
The vendor shall collect the tax on the vendor’s taxable sales and the vendor’s liability for collecting or remitting shall be based upon the proportions and ratios established by the test check, and not upon any other basis of determination, until such time as a subsequent test check is made at the request of either the vendor or the commissioner where either party believes that the nature of the vendor’s business has so changed as to make the prior or existing test check no longer representative. The commissioner may give notice to the vendor at any time that the authorization is revoked or the vendor may notify the commissioner that the vendor no longer elects to report under the authorization. Such notice shall be delivered to the other party personally or by registered mail. The revocation or cancellation is not effective prior to the date of receipt of such notice.
Effective Date: 09-06-2002