324.05 Quarterly return showing aggregate amount of charges for utility service made by it to customers. - Ohio Statutes

324.05 Quarterly return showing aggregate amount of charges for utility service made by it to customers.

Each utility supplying a utility service subject to the utilities service tax shall on or before the twentieth day of the month following the close of each calendar quarter make a return to the auditor of the county showing the aggregate amount of charges for utility service made by it to customers in the county during the preceding calendar quarter, the aggregate amount of utilities service tax due thereon, less the tax included in the accounts charged off as uncollectible by the utility on its own books, and such other information as may be prescribed by the tax commissioner for the proper administration of sections 324.01 to 324.12, inclusive, of the Revised Code. Each utility shall at the time of making such return pay to the county the amount of utilities service tax shown on such return to be due less an amount equal to one-half of one mill times the taxable charges for utility services which amount shall be retained by the utility as reimbursement for its expenses of billing and collecting the tax.

The auditor of any county levying a utilities service tax, for good cause shown and in accordance with rules and regulations adopted by the tax commissioner, may extend the time for filing a return and may permit a utility to file returns and pay the tax on an annual basis.

Each utility shall keep complete and accurate books and records of charges made for utility services, together with a record of the tax collected thereon. Such books and records shall be open during business hours to the inspection of the tax commissioner and the auditor of the county levying a utilities service tax, or their duly authorized agents or employees, and shall be preserved for a period of four years, unless the tax commissioner, in writing, consents to their destruction within that period, or by order requires that they be kept longer.

Effective Date: 12-12-1967