Chapter 5737 | Grain Handling Tax

Section 5737.01 | Grain handling tax definitions.

• Effective: August 16, 1961
• Latest Legislation: House Bill 76 - 104th General Assembly

As used in sections 5737.01 to 5737.08, inclusive, of the Revised Code:

(A) "Person" includes individuals, corporations, firms, and associations of whatsoever form.

(B) "Handling" includes the receipt of grain and the purchase of grain in connection with or as a part of any business, with the exceptions and exemptions mentioned in this section and in section 5737.02 of the Revised Code.

(C) "Receipt" and "received" mean the acquisition of actual custody or possession at or in an elevator, warehouse, store, mill, or other facility for the storage, accumulation, sale, or processing of grain for any purpose, but do not include transactions for the purpose only of guaranteeing warehouse receipts to be used as security.

(D) "Purchase" and "purchased" mean the acquisition of title without custody or possession, but do not include transactions for the purpose only of guaranteeing warehouse receipts to be used as security.

(E) "Grain" includes all commercial field seeds in their natural state, or when hulled, cleaned, dried, graded, or polished, but excludes such seeds when otherwise processed and the products of such processing.

(F) "Assessor," "return," "assessment," "general personal duplicate," and "taxing district" have the meaning assigned thereto by the laws relating to the taxation of personal property.

(G) "Track buyer" means any person who buys and sells grain of any kind from other persons engaged in the elevator and grain business and who does not have actual possession of such grain in his own warehouse or on his own premises, but who handles commercial paper only and not the actual grain.

Section 5737.02 | Exemptions.

• Effective: August 16, 1961
• Latest Legislation: House Bill 76 - 104th General Assembly

Sections 5737.01 to 5737.08, inclusive, of the Revised Code do not apply to a public utility, as defined in the taxation laws of this state, nor to a farmer as to grain raised and stored, kept, or found on a farm owned or operated by himself. Such sections do not exempt any person engaged in any business taxed by such sections as to grain which is not otherwise subject to taxation in this state from the tax imposed by sections 5737.01 to 5737.08, inclusive, of the Revised Code and all such grain shall be included in the statements required and the assessments authorized and required by such sections.

Section 5737.03 | Levy of tax - rate - exemption.

• Effective: June 30, 2005
• Latest Legislation: House Bill 66 - 126th General Assembly

An annual excise tax is hereby levied on the handling of grain, in lieu of all taxes on grain as property of any person engaged in such business, for all the purposes for which taxes would otherwise be levied on such grain as property in the taxing district in which any such business is carried on, measured as follows:

(A) For the statement due in 2005, one-half mill per bushel upon all wheat and flax handled at one or more places in this state in any such business during the taxable year, as defined in section 5737.04 of the Revised Code, and one-fourth mill per bushel upon all other grain handled.

(B) For the statement due in 2006, one-fourth mill per bushel upon all wheat and flax handled at one or more places in this state in any such business during the taxable year, as defined in section 5737.04 of the Revised Code, and one-eighth mill per bushel upon all other grain handled.

(C) No statement or tax is due in 2007 or any year thereafter.

The tax imposed by this section shall not be paid by a track buyer, who shall be liable for the personal property taxes only, as levied by sections 5711.01 to 5711.36 of the Revised Code.

All grain included in the statements required by section 5737.04 of the Revised Code, upon the handling of which a tax is imposed by this section, is exempt from taxation as personal property. Any grain that would be included in such statements for taxable year 2007 or any year thereafter is exempt from taxation as personal property.

Section 5737.04 | Statement to accompany annual return - contents - form.

• Effective: October 1, 1953
• Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly

Every person engaged in handling grain shall, at the time when his annual return of taxable property is made or required to be made, file a statement setting forth:

(A) The number of bushels of each kind of grain received by him, or purchased by him for shipment from a place in this state, at each place where he has carried on such business in this state during the year immediately preceding the date as of which the taxable personal property of such person is required to be listed, or the part thereof during which he was engaged in such business at such place. Grain purchased for shipment from a place in this state is deemed purchased at the principal place in this state where the purchaser maintains an elevator, warehouse, or other like facility; and if there is no such place, at the principal office or place of business of such person in this state, which, in the case of an individual having no other office or place of business, shall be his actual place of residence.

(B) The number of bushels of each kind of grain included in the statement required by division (A) of this section which has been transferred from one such place to another such place.

A form for making such statement shall be included in the blanks prescribed by the tax commissioner for the making of returns of taxable property. Such statement shall be filed with such return in the office in which such return is filed, or would be required to be filed, as to taxable personal property used in business at the place where such occupation is or has been carried on.

Section 5737.05 | Assessor's computation of tax.

• Effective: October 1, 1953
• Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly

The assessor, from the statement required by section 5737.04 of the Revised Code or other information he acquires, shall ascertain the number of bushels of each class of grain mentioned in section 5737.03 of the Revised Code received or purchased by each such person at each place during the taxable year. Where grain during such year has been transferred from one such place to another without change in substantial ownership, the duplication resulting therefrom shall be eliminated, and the resulting decrease shall be divided equally between the places so affected.

The rate imposed by section 5737.03 of the Revised Code shall be multiplied by the number of bushels of each class of grain assigned to each such place, and the resulting amount shall constitute the tax to be assessed in each such place.

Section 5737.06 | Payment and assessment of tax - duties and rights of taxpayer.

• Effective: October 1, 1953
• Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly

The tax imposed by sections 5737.01 to 5737.08, inclusive, of the Revised Code shall be payable at the time specified by law for the payment of taxes on taxable personal property, and shall be assessed by the assessor authorized or required to assess the taxable personal property of the person subject thereto, in like manner and at the times provided by law for the assessment of such taxable property, in the taxing district where such business is carried on, in the amount required by section 5737.05 of the Revised Code, which shall be separately set forth on the assessment certificate. All the powers and duties vested in the county auditor, the tax commissioner, or any other officer or board as to the assessment of taxable personal property shall apply to said commissioner and other officers as to the assessment of the tax imposed by sections 5737.01 to 5737.08, inclusive, of the Revised Code. All the duties and liabilities, including penalties, imposed by law upon a taxpayer as to the making of returns of taxable personal property and the payment of taxes assessed on the general personal duplicate are hereby imposed upon each person subject to the tax imposed by such sections. All rights of a taxpayer, or of any other person in behalf of or in succession to a taxpayer, with respect to the assessment and payment of taxes levied on personal property, including all rights of appeal from such personal property and penalty assessments, are hereby conferred upon each such person and made applicable to the assessment and payment of the tax imposed by such sections.

Section 5737.07 | Taxes entered on general personal duplicate - collection.

• Effective: October 1, 1953
• Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly

All taxes assessed pursuant to sections 5737.01 to 5737.08, inclusive, of the Revised Code shall be entered on the proper general personal duplicate in the county and taxing district in which the same are required by such sections to be assessed, together with other taxes thereon charged against each person subject to the taxes imposed by such sections, and such tax shall be collected with the other taxes charged thereon, and shall be considered as taxes imposed upon property other than real estate. All the powers and duties of the county treasurer, the county recorder, and all other officers as to the collection and enforcement of taxes on property other than real estate apply to the collection and enforcement of the tax imposed by sections 5737.01 to 5737.08, inclusive, of the Revised Code. In computing the amount with which any person stands charged on any tax duplicate for taxes other than those charged on real estate, the amount of the tax imposed by such sections charged against him shall be included.

Section 5737.08 | Distribution of revenue.

• Effective: October 1, 1953
• Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly

All revenue derived from the tax levied by sections 5737.01 to 5737.08, inclusive of the Revised Code, shall be distributed by the county auditor and county treasurer to the taxing districts on the general personal duplicate of which such taxes are assessed, in the proportions in which such taxing districts are entitled to share in the revenue accruing from the collection of other taxes charged thereon, and at the times provided by law for the distribution of such other revenue.