(A) The Municipality shall require a lottery sales agent conducting video lottery terminal sales on behalf of the state to withhold and remit municipal income tax with respect to amounts other than qualifying wages as provided in this section.
(B) If a person’s prize award from a video lottery terminal is an amount for which reporting to the internal revenue service is required by section 6041 of the Internal Revenue Code, as amended, the video lottery sales agent shall deduct and withhold municipal income tax from the person’s prize award at a rate of the tax imposed by the municipal corporation in which the video lottery terminal facility is located. 28
(C) Amounts deducted and withheld by a video lottery sales agent are held in trust for the benefit of the municipal corporation to which the tax is owed.
(1) The video lottery sales agent shall issue to a person from whose prize award an amount has been deducted and withheld a receipt for the amount deducted and withheld, and shall obtain from the person receiving a prize award the person’s name, address, and social security number in order to facilitate the preparation of returns required by this section.
(2) On or before the tenth day of each month, the video lottery sales agent shall file a return electronically with the Tax Commissioner of the Municipality providing the names, addresses, and social security numbers of the person from whose prize awards amounts were deducted and withheld, the amount of each such deduction and withholding during the preceding calendar month, the amount of the prize award from which each such amount was withheld, and any other information required by the Tax Commissioner. With the return, the video lottery sales agent shall remit electronically to the Tax Commissioner all amounts deducted and withheld during the preceding month.
(3) A video lottery sales agent shall maintain a record of all receipts issued under division (C) of this section and shall make those records available to the Tax Commissioner upon request. Such records shall be maintained in accordance with section 5474.17 of the Ohio Revised Code and any rules adopted pursuant thereto.
(4) Annually, on or before the thirty-first day of January, each video lottery terminal sales agent shall file an annual return electronically with the Tax Commissioner of the municipal corporation in which the facility is located indicating the total amount deducted and withheld during the preceding calendar year. The video lottery sales agent shall remit electronically with the annual return any amount that was deducted and withheld and that was not previously remitted. If the name, address, or social security number of a person or the amount deducted and withheld with respect to that person was omitted on a monthly return for that reporting period that information shall be indicated on the annual return.
(5) Annually, on or before the thirty-first day of January, a video lottery sales agent shall issue an information return to each person with respect to whom an amount has been deducted and withheld during the preceding calendar year. The information return shall show the total amount of municipal income tax deducted and withheld from the person’s prize award by the video lottery sales agent during the preceding year. A video lottery sales agent shall provide the Tax Commissioner of the municipal corporation a copy of each information return issued under this division. The Tax Commissioner may require that such copies be transmitted electronically.
(6) A video lottery sales agent who fails to file a return and remit the amounts deducted and withheld is personally liable for the amount deducted and withheld and not remitted. Such personal liability extends to any penalty and interest imposed for the late filing of a return or the late payment of tax deducted and withheld.
(C) If a video lottery sales agent ceases to operate video lottery terminals, the amounts deducted and withheld along with any penalties and interest thereon are immediately due and payable. The successor of the video lottery sales agent that purchases the video lottery terminals from the agent shall withhold an amount from the purchase money that is sufficient to cover the amounts deducted and withheld and any penalties and interest thereon until the predecessor video lottery sales agent operator produces either of the following:
(1) A receipt from the Tax Commissioner showing that the amounts deducted and withheld and penalties and interest thereon have been paid;
(2) A certificate from the Tax Commissioner indicating that no amounts are due. If the successor fails to withhold purchase money, the successor is personally liable for the payment of the amounts deducted and withheld and penalties and interest thereon.
(D) The failure of a video lottery sales agent to deduct and withhold the required amount from a person’s prize award does not relieve that person from liability for the municipal income tax with respect to that prize award.
(E) If a lottery sales agent files a return late, fails to file a return, remits amounts deducted and withheld late, or fails to remit amounts deducted and withheld as required under this section, the Tax Commissioner of a municipal corporation may impose the following applicable penalty:
(1) For the late remittance of, or failure to remit, tax deducted and withheld under this section, a penalty equal to fifty percent of the tax deducted and withheld;
(2) For the failure to file, or late filing of, a monthly or annual return, a penalty of five hundred dollars for each return not filed or filed late. Interest shall accrue on past due amounts deducted and withheld at the rate prescribed in section 5703.47 of the Ohio Revised Code.
(F) Amounts deducted and withheld on behalf of a municipal corporation shall be allowed as a credit against payment of the tax imposed by the municipal corporation and shall be treated as taxes paid for purposes of Section 183.07 of this Chapter. This division applies only to the person for whom the amount is deducted and withheld.
(G) The Tax Commissioner shall prescribe the forms of the receipts and returns required under this section.
(Ord. 19-15. Passed 10-27-15.)