Madison Township to Mansfield
Ohio municipal income tax, Chapter 718 framework · credit set by Madison Township ordinance · tax year 2026
Work city takes
2.25%
Mansfield, on income earned there
Home city charges
1%
Madison Township, residents
Credit back
$0
nothing is credited
Cost of the commute
$1,350
a year, above working at home
What it costs you
no creditMadison Township credits nothing for tax paid to Mansfield, so both bills stand in full. Solid is what you pay; the faded part of the Madison 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
- Two cities tax this pay, and neither gives way. Mansfield takes about 2.25% of what you earn there. Madison Township then taxes the same money at about 1% and hands back nothing for what Mansfield already took. You pay both in full. On a salary of sixty thousand that is $1,950 a year.
- No route sends more people into Mansfield than this one. About 1,068 workers come from Madison Township, putting it top of 3 recorded origins. Whatever the tax rule does here, it does to a lot of households at once.
- Neither municipality yields on this pairing. Mansfield taxes income earned inside its boundaries at about 2.25%, and Madison Township taxes its residents' income wherever it is earned at about 1%. Madison Township allows no credit for tax paid to another municipality, so both liabilities stand undiminished — $1,350 to the workplace and $600 to the residence, $1,950 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.
- This is the largest recorded flow into Mansfield. Of 3 origins feeding that workplace in this dataset, Madison Township supplies the most workers at approximately 1,068. The credit outcome described above therefore applies to more commuters than any other single route into the city, which matters when the outcome is an adverse one: the same ordinance governs every origin, but the populations behind each are very different.
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
| Mansfield takes, on income earned there | $1,350 |
|---|---|
| Madison Township charges residents | $600 |
| Less the credit Madison Township gives back | $0 |
| Total local tax | $1,950 |
| If you also lived in Mansfield | $600 |
| Difference | $1,350 |
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
- Two guesses about this are wrong, and they miss in opposite directions. The rates are not added together. Nor do you simply pay whichever is higher, which is how it works across the border in Pennsylvania. Mansfield taxes what you earn there, Madison Township taxes everything you earn, and then Madison Township decides how much of the first bill to give back.
- One thing to keep in mind. Ohio does not require Madison Township to give any credit at all. That choice sits with the city, and cities revisit it. A vote in Madison Township could change what this commute to Mansfield costs you, with no change in the law itself.
- Ohio has a second local tax that is not on this page. Some school districts levy their own income tax. It depends on where you live, not on your job in Mansfield, and the credit from Madison Township does not touch it. If your district charges one, add it to everything here.
- 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 Madison Township and Mansfield. That is exactly why they are left out.
- The dollar figures rest on one assumed salary, sixty thousand. Double your pay and they double. Halve it and they halve. What stays put is the relationship between what Mansfield charges and what Madison Township gives back, which is the part worth carrying away.
- 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. Mansfield taxes what is earned within its boundaries, Madison Township taxes its residents on everything, and Madison Township then credits some, all or none of what Mansfield collected. The credit is the entire mechanism, and it is set by Madison Township rather than by the state.
- The credit rule modeled here is Madison Township's own, adopted by ordinance and amendable by Madison 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 Madison Township can therefore change every figure on this page without anything altering in Mansfield 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 Mansfield, and no municipal credit applies to it. A resident of Madison 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 Madison Township and Mansfield, 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 Madison Township to Mansfield 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?
Both places charge you, but the city you live in gives back some of what the other one took. Mansfield taxes you for working there at about 2.25%; Madison Township then charges its own about 1% and credits part of the first against it. Whether anything is left over depends on how generous that credit is.
What does crossing this boundary actually cost me?
Working across the line costs $1,350 a year here. The same salary earned in Madison Township would not carry it.
Why does my home town not credit the whole of what the other one took?
Full credit would mean Madison Township collecting nothing from anyone who works out of town. Councils rarely do that, and the shortfall is what a commuter pays.
Is this a common enough commute to be worth modeling?
1,068 workers make it. The pairing comes from federal commuting data rather than from guesswork, and thin routes are excluded rather than estimated.
How does a resident credit allocate liability between two municipalities?
Both jurisdictions assert a claim: Mansfield on the basis of work location at about 2.25%, Madison 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 $1,350 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 basis for including this route?
Route volume is 1,068 workers, sourced from Census LODES origin-destination data. Pairs below the publication threshold are excluded rather than imputed, so page existence reflects measured commuting volume.