Ohio Department of Taxation Online Services - eForms

Welcome to Ohio eForms - Sales and Use Tax

IMPORTANT NOTE: The Ohio Department of Taxation's business eForms for sales & use taxes will be discontinued March 31, 2012. The last form available for semi-annual or quarterly filers will be the period ending December 31, 2011 that is due on or before January 23, 2012. The last form available for monthly filers will be the period ending February 29, 2012 that is due on or before March 23, 2012.

Sales and use tax returns can continue to be filed on the Ohio Business Gateway (OBG) by visiting http://business.ohio.gov. Single county vendors (accounts where the first two digits are 01 through 88), may also use theTelefile system by calling 1-800-697-0440.

Ohio's newest method of filing a sales or use tax return is eForms.

eForms are Adobe Acrobat PDF versions of Ohio's key sales and use tax forms that can be completed electronically, much as one would do with pen and paper. (Adobe Reader 9.1 or greater is required; download the latest version of Adobe Reader at www.adobe.com.)

When complete, returns can be submitted to the Department of Taxation with the click of a button, or saved to the taxpayer's computer. Payment options are credit card, electronic check, paper check and ACH credit.

Taxpayers and authorized filers/tax practitioners who have used eForms to file sales tax returns before can go ahead and get started by selecting an eForm below. New users will need to register first. All users may benefit from the other resources available below, including an explanation of payment options.

Registration, account and payment information

• Registration and account services - Taxpayers who want to register their tax account(s), make changes to their existing registration or recover a lost password should choose this option.
• Payment options - eForms includes several payment options. Click here to review the payment options first, before choosing an option within the eForm.

Sales tax eForms now available

If you've already registered, go ahead and get started. Choose a form below, download and save it to your computer, and begin filing. If you need help, there's a tutorial available to assist you (note: this tutorial contains audio).

If you have Internet Explorer 8.0 on your computer, please make sure that you are using the latest version of Adobe Reader.

UPDATE If you are using Adobe Reader 9.3 or above to file, you may encounter an error message — please see this solution.

• UST 1 - Universal Sales Tax Return (long form) (12/9/2011)
• UST 1 - Universal Sales Tax Return (short form) (12/9/2011)
• UUT 1 - Universal Use Tax Return (long form) (12/9/2011)
• UUT 1 - Universal Use Tax Return (short form) (12/9/2011)

Other filing resources

• UST 1 - Universal Sales Tax Return Instructions
• UUT 1 - Universal Use Tax Return Instructions
• The Finder - Find a tax rate for any Ohio address.
• eForms technical requirements and troubleshooting information
• eForms Mac computer troubleshooting information