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You collect a 10% excise from the customer on the price of adult-use marijuana, plus 5.75% state sales tax. Add the county or transit rate for that store address. You do not charge the excise on medical marijuana, and you report the excise on its own return under the Ohio excise-tax statute, in force since March 20, 2026.
Ohio requires a separate excise return on a form of its own, and you file it in the same manner and at the same time as your sales-tax return. Keep separate ledgers so you can see both liabilities. If you file sales tax monthly, file both by the 23rd of the following month, or the next business day.
Ohio excludes sales tax from adult-use gross sales, so you leave it out of the excise base. Ohio also excludes the excise from the sales-tax base, but only if you show it as its own line on the receipt. Bury the excise in the price and you pull it into the sales tax calculation.
Use the Ohio sales-tax statute for the state rate and The Finder for current county and transit rates by location.
Code one product wrong and you charge the wrong tax on that product until someone finds it, then you carry the shortfall into the returns you file in between. Send us your product list and one month of point-of-sale reports.
Separate adult-use marijuana, medical marijuana, and other taxable retail items.
Apply the current store-level sales rate and the adult-use excise rule.
Match each tax layer against receipts, refunds, deposits, and ledgers.
File both returns through OH|Tax eServices on your sales-tax schedule and retain the confirmations.
Allocation under ORC 3796.40. Ohio pays these distributions by the end of each month, based on the previous month’s collections.
We confirm vendor licensing, sales-tax access, adult-use excise registration, and filing frequency.
We test product, customer, location, refund, and rounding behavior, including which discounts and coupons reduce the excise base.
We maintain separate liability accounts, reconcile deposits against tax collected, prepare recurring returns, and keep complete records of sales for at least four years under OAC 5703-43-09.
Responsive and well organized accountancy at a competitive price point with transparent pricing. I will be moving my Quickbooks based two small business returns prep to them after this positive experience with my personal returns.
Dimov Tax runs one monthly close behind both Ohio returns, then handles recurring sales tax filing. Send each dispensary address, your registration details, the medical and adult-use sales split, point-of-sale reports and the last filed returns, before your next filing date or before you open another location. For cross-state math, use the national cannabis sales tax calculator.
