Individual Income Tax
Personal Income Tax
1988 Income Tax Returns By Income Class
A total of 4,560,529 Ohio personal income tax returns were
filed for tax year 1988 (April 17, 1989 filing deadline).
This represented an increase of 3.4 percent from the number
of returns filed the previous year. Total federal adjusted
gross income of approximately $133.1 billion was reported on
the returns, an increase of 11.0 percent over the amount
reported for 1987. The average federal adjusted gross income
per return was $29,195, an increase of 7.3 percent from 1987.
Taxpayers claimed basic personal exemptions ($650 per
taxpayer and each dependent) valued at approximately $6.2
billion, an average of $1,354 per return, or about 2.1
exemptions per return. Ohio taxable income as reported on the
returns was $124.5 billion, an average of $27,310 per return.
Ohio's graduated income tax rates are applied to the Ohio
taxable income figure to obtain the tax liability before any
credits are calculated. The 1988 tax rates were applied to
segments of taxable income, with a 0.743 percent rate applied
to the first $5,000 of every taxpayer's taxable income up to
a top rate of 6.90 percent on that portion of a taxpayer's
taxable income which exceeded $100,000. Applying these
graduated tax rates to Ohio taxable income for all taxpayers
yielded a figure of about $4,513.1 million. Net tax liability
after subtraction of the personal exemption credit, joint
filer credit for two working spouses, senior citizen credit,
and other credits was $3,579.7 million, an increase of 12.4
percent over the previous year's tax liability. The average
income tax liability was $784.93 per return which was 8.7
percent higher than in 1987.
All figures shown in table Y-1 were compiled from returns
filed for tax year 1988 with the Ohio Department of Taxation.