Individual Income
Municipal Income Taxes
Tax Rates and Amounts Collected, by Municipality, Calendar
Year 1997
Municipal income taxes collected in Ohio during calendar year
1997 totaled $2,807,485,112. Of this amount cities collected
$2,627,163,865 while villages collected $180,321,247. A total
of 536 municipalities (236 cities and 300 villages) levied
the 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 1997 ranged from a low of
0.40 percent in the City of 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 levy and collect municipal income taxes for its
corresponding school district. The city's income tax is 2.38%
while the Euclid City School District has a 0.47% tax.
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 1997. An example of an increase due to a rate
adjustment is the Village of Glenwillow (Cuyahoga County) up
86.3%. The first full year of collections in 1997 resulted in
a large variances for the Villages of Wakeman (Huron County)
up 71.8%, Dunkirk (Hardin County) up 40.4%, and Oakwood
(Paulding County) up 267.1%.
Data for Table LG-11 was obtained from surveys conducted by
the Ohio Department of Taxation.