An employee, an owner, or a beneficiary of, or an investor in, a qualifying entity or an electing pass-through entity having control or supervision of, or charged with the responsibility for, filing returns and making payments, or any trustee or other fiduciary, officer, member, or manager of the entity who is responsible for the execution of the entity’s fiscal responsibilities, is personally liable for the failure to file any report or to pay any tax due as required by sections 5747.40 to 5747.453 of the Revised Code. The dissolution, termination, or bankruptcy of a qualifying entity or an electing pass-through entity does not discharge a responsible trustee’s, fiduciary‘s, officer’s, member’s, manager’s, employee’s, investor’s, owner’s, or beneficiary’s liability for failure of the entity to file any report or pay any tax due as required by those sections. The sum due for the liability may be collected by assessment in the manner provided in section 5747.13 of the Revised Code.

Terms Used In Ohio Code 5747.453

  • Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
  • Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. Source: OCC
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • Fiduciary: means a guardian, trustee, executor, administrator, receiver, conservator, or any other person acting in any fiduciary capacity for any individual, trust, or estate. See Ohio Code 5747.01
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.

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