Clinton Township to Tiffin
Ohio municipal income tax, Chapter 718 framework · credit set by Clinton Township ordinance · tax year 2026
Work city takes
2%
Tiffin, on income earned there
Home city charges
1%
Clinton Township, residents
Credit back
$0
nothing is credited
Cost of the commute
$1,200
a year, above working at home
What it costs you
no creditClinton Township credits nothing for tax paid to Tiffin, so both bills stand in full. Solid is what you pay; the faded part of the Clinton Township bar is the credit it hands back. Municipal income tax only — state, federal and payroll tax apply on top, and an Ohio school district income tax may too.
What this commute actually costs
- Most Ohio cities soften this. Clinton Township does not. It charges residents about 1% whether or not another city has already taken a share of the same pay. Tiffin takes about 2% first, and none of it comes back. The year's local tax works out at $1,800.
- Tiffin shows just one commuting route in this data, and it starts in Clinton Township. Roughly 596 people make the trip. That is not the whole picture of who works there, only the part large enough to be published.
- Neither municipality yields on this pairing. Tiffin taxes income earned inside its boundaries at about 2%, and Clinton Township taxes its residents' income wherever it is earned at about 1%. Clinton Township allows no credit for tax paid to another municipality, so both liabilities stand undiminished — $1,200 to the workplace and $600 to the residence, $1,800 together at the reference salary. Ohio's uniform framework for municipal income tax standardizes administration across the state but leaves the credit itself to local ordinance, which is why it can be set at nothing at all.
- Within this dataset Tiffin draws a single recorded commuting flow of qualifying size — the one from Clinton Township, carrying roughly 596 workers. That reflects the reporting floor rather than the labor market: smaller flows certainly exist and fall below the threshold at which Census origin-destination statistics are published. No ranking against sibling routes is therefore available for this workplace.
Where the money goes
A $75,000 salary
- Federal income tax$7,670
- Social Security and Medicare$5,738
- State income tax$1,346
- Yours$60,246
| Federal income tax10.23% | $7,670 |
|---|---|
| Social Security and Medicare7.65% | $5,738 |
| State income tax1.79% | $1,346 |
| Yours80.33% | $60,246 |
The arithmetic, step by step
| Tiffin takes, on income earned there | $1,200 |
|---|---|
| Clinton Township charges residents | $600 |
| Less the credit Clinton Township gives back | $0 |
| Total local tax | $1,800 |
| If you also lived in Tiffin | $600 |
| Difference | $1,200 |
On a reference salary of $60,000 a year. Both rates and the credit ceiling are shares of income, so every figure scales with your own pay.
What this page does not cover
- Do not add the two rates up, and do not assume the bigger one simply wins. Neither is how Ohio works. Both Tiffin and Clinton Township charge you. Clinton Township may then hand back what Tiffin took, or part of it, or none of it. Everything on this page turns on which of those it does.
- These figures rest on a local rule, not a state one. Clinton Township decides how much credit to give for tax already paid to Tiffin. It is worth confirming the current position with the city or its collection agency, because this is the part most likely to have changed.
- Watch for one more local tax. School district income tax is separate from what Clinton Township and Tiffin charge, and plenty of Ohio districts levy it. Working elsewhere makes no difference to it, and no credit offsets it.
- One tax is on this page and it is the city one. State tax, federal tax and Social Security all still come out of your pay. None of them change when you cross the line between Clinton Township and Tiffin. That is exactly why they are left out.
- Sixty thousand a year is the assumption behind the dollars. It is stated rather than measured. No wage figure exists for a place the size of Clinton Township. The percentages are the durable part of this page, and they do not shift with what you earn in Tiffin.
- Two misreadings bracket the correct answer and both are common. Ohio does not simply add the two rates together, which would overstate the charge; nor does it apply only the higher of them, which is Pennsylvania's rule and would understate it wherever the credit is partial. Tiffin taxes what is earned within its boundaries, Clinton Township taxes its residents on everything, and Clinton Township then credits some, all or none of what Tiffin collected. The credit is the entire mechanism, and it is set by Clinton Township rather than by the state.
- The credit rule modeled here is Clinton Township's own, adopted by ordinance and amendable by Clinton Township alone. Ohio's uniform framework governs definitions, filing and withholding; it does not compel any municipality to credit tax paid to another. A council vote in Clinton Township can therefore change every figure on this page without anything altering in Tiffin or in state law, which is a materially different exposure from a rate set by statute.
- Ohio school district income tax is a separate levy from municipal income tax and is excluded from these figures. It is imposed by school district of residence rather than by municipality, it is unaffected by employment in Tiffin, and no municipal credit applies to it. A resident of Clinton Township whose school district levies one owes it in addition to everything shown here, which is why the totals on this page are a municipal position rather than a complete local one.
- Only municipal income tax is modeled. Ohio's state income tax, federal income tax and payroll taxes all apply in addition and are invariant to the boundary between Clinton Township and Tiffin, which is precisely why they are excluded: isolating the layer that responds to the commute is the point of the comparison. A complete tax position requires adding them; a comparison of the two locations does not.
- Dollar figures are computed against a stated reference salary of sixty thousand rather than a municipal wage average, which no published source provides for Ohio municipalities. Both rates and the credit ceiling are proportional to income, so every figure scales linearly: the Clinton Township to Tiffin differential doubles at twice the salary and halves at half of it, and the rate relationship holds at every level. The one caveat is that whether the ceiling binds at all is itself scale-invariant here, because it too is expressed as a share of income rather than as a fixed dollar cap.
Questions people ask
Do I pay local tax twice — once where I work and once where I live?
Two claims, one partly canceled. Tiffin takes about 2% because you work there, Clinton Township charges about 1% because you live there, and the home city credits some of the first against the second.
What does crossing this boundary actually cost me?
$1,200 a year more than if you worked where you live. It is not a commuting charge and it buys you nothing — it is what falls out of two jurisdictions both having a claim and only one of them yielding.
Why does my home town not credit the whole of what the other one took?
Full credit would mean Clinton Township collecting nothing from anyone who works out of town. Councils rarely do that, and the shortfall is what a commuter pays.
Is this commute common enough for the numbers to mean anything?
It is a smaller route: 596 workers. That affects how representative it is, not whether the tax arithmetic applies — the rules are the same on a quiet road as a busy one.
How does a resident credit allocate liability between two municipalities?
Both jurisdictions assert a claim: Tiffin on the basis of work location at about 2%, Clinton Township on residence at about 1%. The residence municipality grants a credit for tax paid to the work municipality, commonly capped as a share of income. Net liability is the residence tax less that credit, floored at zero, plus the work tax.
What is the marginal local tax cost of this commute?
Marginal annual liability attributable to working outside the residence jurisdiction is $1,200 at the reference salary. This is a tax cost rather than a commuting expense and is not deductible as one. It scales with income and with the rate differential, not with distance traveled.
Why is the residence credit less than the full work-district tax?
Credit rates and ceilings are set by the residence municipality, not by state law. A full credit would forgo residence-based revenue from every outbound commuter, so credits are commonly partial or capped as a share of income. The uncredited remainder is the commuter's marginal cost.
What is the measurement basis for a route of this size?
Route volume is 596 workers per Census LODES, above the publication floor but below the dataset's upper quartile. Liability is determined by jurisdictional rates and residence rules alone; commuter volume has no bearing on it and is reported only as context.