Individual Income
Municipal Income Taxes
Tax Rates and Amounts Collected, by Municipality, Calendar
Year 1995
Municipal income taxes collected in Ohio during calendar year
1995 totalled $2,515,317,037. Of this amount $2,351,836,437
was collected by cities and $163,480,599 by villages. A total
of 524 municipalities (233 cities and 292 villages) levied a
tax.
Municipal income taxes are generally imposed on wages,
salaries, and other compensation earned by residents and on
nonresidents who work in the municipality. The income tax is
also applied to business net profits that are attributable to
activities in the municipality. Many municipalities allow a
partial or full credit to residents for taxes they have paid
to another municipality of employment.
State law requires that the rate must be uniform within a
municipality and cannot exceed one percent without a vote of
the people. Rates of taxation in 1995 ranged from a low of
0.40 percent in Indian Hill Village, Hamilton County, to a
high of 2.85 percent in the City of Euclid, Cuyahoga County.
The City of Euclid is the only municipality to share revenue
with their corresponding school district. The recent tax
increase of 0.85% (effective December 1994) is split between
the city and the Euclid Board of Education. Of the 0.85%,
0.38% is allocated to the city while 0.47% is allocated to
the Board.
Administration of the municipal income tax is strictly local,
either by the cities and villages themselves or by central
collection agencies representing several municipalities.
Several municipalities had high percentage increases in
collections in 1995. An example of an increase due to a rate
adjustment is the Village of Galena, Delaware County, up
58.1%. The first full year of collections in 1995 resulted in
a large variance for the Village of Carroll, Fairfield County
up 552.6%. Lastly, the City of Riverside, Montogomery County,
merged with Riverside Township in 1994 resulting in an
increase of 90.5% in collections.
Data for Table LG-11 was obtained from surveys conducted by
the Ohio Department of Taxation.