Ohio Code 5739.025 – Computation; audits; sale of a fractional ownership program aircraft
(A) A vendor shall compute the tax on each sale by multiplying the price by the aggregate rate of taxes in effect under sections 5739.02 and 5741.02, and sections 5739.021, 5739.023, 5739.026, 5741.021, 5741.022, and 5741.023 of the Revised Code. The computation shall be carried out to three decimal places. If the result is a fractional amount of a cent, the calculated tax shall be rounded to a whole cent using a method that rounds up to the next cent whenever the third decimal place is greater than four. A vendor may elect to compute the tax due on a transaction on an item or an invoice basis.
Terms Used In Ohio Code 5739.025
- Fractional aircraft ownership program: means a program in which persons within an affiliated group sell and manage fractional ownership program aircraft, provided that at least one hundred airworthy aircraft are operated in the program and the program meets all of the following criteria:
(a) Management services are provided by at least one program manager within an affiliated group on behalf of the fractional owners. See Ohio Code 5739.01
- Price: includes consideration received by the vendor from a third party, if the vendor actually receives the consideration from a party other than the consumer, and the consideration is directly related to a price reduction or discount on the sale; the vendor has an obligation to pass the price reduction or discount through to the consumer; the amount of the consideration attributable to the sale is fixed and determinable by the vendor at the time of the sale of the item to the consumer; and one of the following criteria is met:
(i) The consumer presents a coupon, certificate, or other document to the vendor to claim a price reduction or discount where the coupon, certificate, or document is authorized, distributed, or granted by a third party with the understanding that the third party will reimburse any vendor to whom the coupon, certificate, or document is presented;
(ii) The consumer identifies the consumer's self to the seller as a member of a group or organization entitled to a price reduction or discount. See Ohio Code 5739.01
- program aircraft: means a turbojet aircraft that is owned or possessed by a fractional owner and that has been included in a dry-lease aircraft interchange arrangement and agreement under divisions (III)(1)(d) and (e) of this section, or an aircraft a program manager owns or possesses primarily for use in a fractional aircraft ownership program. See Ohio Code 5739.01
- Vendor: means the person providing the service or by whom the transfer effected or license given by a sale is or is to be made or given and, for sales described in division (B)(3)(i) of this section, the telecommunications service vendor that provides the nine hundred telephone service; if two or more persons are engaged in business at the same place of business under a single trade name in which all collections on account of sales by each are made, such persons shall constitute a single vendor. See Ohio Code 5739.01
(B) In auditing a vendor, the tax commissioner shall consider the method prescribed by this section that was used by the vendor in determining and collecting the tax due under this chapter on taxable transactions. If the vendor correctly collects and remits the tax due under this chapter in accordance with the computation prescribed in division (A) of this section, the commissioner shall not assess any additional tax on those transactions.
(C)(1) With respect to a sale of a fractional ownership program aircraft used primarily in a fractional aircraft ownership program, including all accessories attached to such aircraft, the tax shall be calculated pursuant to division (A) of this section, provided that the tax commissioner shall modify those calculations so that the maximum tax on each program aircraft is eight hundred dollars. In the case of a sale of a fractional interest that is less than one hundred per cent of the program aircraft, the tax charged on the transaction shall be eight hundred dollars multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the percentage of ownership or possession in the aircraft being purchased in the transaction, and the denominator of which is one hundred per cent.
(2) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the tax calculated under division (C)(1) of this section and paid with respect to the sale of a fractional ownership program aircraft used primarily in a fractional aircraft ownership program shall be credited to the general revenue fund.