Other title: Ohio Department of Taxation

"Date of Report: December 21, 2012."The Office of the Ohio Inspector General received notification from the Ohio Department of Taxation (ODT) that on or about February 14, 2012, an employee of a market located in Northeast Ohio (market), called to confirm that ODT had received his money order and applied a recent tax payment of $424.08 on a tax liability. The ODT employee who took the call was able to confirm that this account was up to date, but noticed that the tax liability had not been paid from the money order indicated by the employee, but was paid from an overpayment/credit on another, unrelated taxpayer's account, a grocer located in Western Ohio. The money order prepared for the tax payment from the market was unaccounted for. The ODT employee who spoke with the market employee by phone notified her supervisor, Katherine Messina. The Integrated Tax Administration System (ITAS) reflects that Kathleen S. Hyre transferred monies on an account from the grocer to meet the tax liability of the market