No seller shall fail to collect the full and exact tax as required by section 5741.02, 5741.021, 5741.022, or 5741.023 of the Revised Code, or fail to comply with sections 5741.01 to 5741.22 of the Revised Code, and the rules of the tax commissioner or except as expressly authorized by such sections, refund, remit, or rebate to a consumer, directly or indirectly by whatsoever means, any of the tax, or make in any form of advertising, verbal or otherwise, any statements which might imply that he is absorbing the tax, or paying the tax for the consumer by an adjustment of prices, or selling at a price including the tax, or rebating the tax in any other manner.

Terms Used In Ohio Code 5741.21

  • 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
  • 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

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