Massillon to Jackson Township
Ohio municipal income tax, Chapter 718 framework · credit set by Massillon ordinance · tax year 2026
Work city takes
1.5%
Jackson Township, on income earned there
Home city charges
2%
Massillon, residents
Credit back
$900
a share of the work tax
Cost of the commute
$0
a year, above working at home
What it costs you
no extra local taxMassillon credits only part of what Jackson Township takes, so the remainder is taxed twice. Solid is what you pay; the faded part of the Massillon 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
- Here is the good news. Working in Jackson Township costs you nothing extra in local tax. Massillon charges residents about 2%, and it credits back every dollar Jackson Township collects from you. Either way your bill is $1,200 a year. What changes is which city keeps the money, not how much of it you hand over.
- There is room here, and it is measurable. Jackson Township could take another $300 a year from you before Massillon's credit ran out. Until then the two cities settle it between themselves and you pay what you would have paid at home.
- This data records 8 commutes into Jackson Township, and the one from Massillon ranks 3, carrying roughly 1,713 workers. That is a handful of routes rather than a full map of who works there.
- Roughly 1,713 people travel from Massillon to Jackson Township for work. Multiply one household's answer by that, and the credit rule stops being a detail.
- This pairing is neutral to the worker. Jackson Township withholds about 1.5% on income earned there, and Massillon, which levies about 2% on residents, credits that payment in full without reaching its own ceiling. Liability at the reference salary is therefore $1,200 — precisely what the same earnings would attract with no commute at all. What the arrangement alters is the division of revenue between Jackson Township and Massillon, not the sum leaving the worker's pay.
- The margin is worth knowing, because it is not large. Massillon credits tax paid to Jackson Township only up to a ceiling set as a share of income, and Jackson Township's levy currently sits below it with $300 of annual room to spare at the reference salary. Were Jackson Township to raise its rate past that point, the excess would cease to be credited and would fall on the worker rather than on either treasury.
- Jackson Township records 8 qualifying commuting origins in this dataset, of which Massillon ranks 3 by worker count at approximately 1,713. A workplace of this size draws from a small enough set of origins that the comparison is indicative rather than statistical, and the published floor excludes an unknown tail of smaller flows.
- Census origin-destination statistics record approximately 1,713 workers commuting from Massillon to Jackson Township, placing this among the larger intra-state flows in Ohio. The outcome set out above therefore has aggregate fiscal consequence for both municipalities, not merely individual consequence for the worker: the credit Massillon does or does not extend is applied to every one of them at once.
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
| Jackson Township takes, on income earned there | $900 |
|---|---|
| Massillon charges residents | $1,200 |
| Less the credit Massillon gives back | $900 |
| Total local tax | $1,200 |
| If you also lived in Jackson Township | $1,200 |
| Difference | $0 |
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 Jackson Township and Massillon charge you. Massillon may then hand back what Jackson Township took, or part of it, or none of it. Everything on this page turns on which of those it does.
- The credit rule on this page belongs to Massillon, not to the state. Its council sets it and its council can change it. Nothing needs to happen in Jackson Township or at the state level for these numbers to move. Check the current rule before you rely on it.
- 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 Jackson Township, and the credit from Massillon does not touch it. If your district charges one, add it to everything here.
- These figures are the local layer alone. Whatever Massillon and Jackson Township take sits on top of state, federal and payroll tax. Those three are the same wherever in Ohio you work, so putting them in would bury the difference this page is about.
- Every dollar amount here uses a salary of sixty thousand a year. It is a benchmark, not a guess at what people in Massillon earn, because nobody publishes average pay for single municipalities. Scale the figures to your own salary. The rates and the credit work the same way at any income, so the Jackson Township conclusion holds.
- 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. Jackson Township taxes what is earned within its boundaries, Massillon taxes its residents on everything, and Massillon then credits some, all or none of what Jackson Township collected. The credit is the entire mechanism, and it is set by Massillon rather than by the state.
- The credit rule modeled here is Massillon's own, adopted by ordinance and amendable by Massillon 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 Massillon can therefore change every figure on this page without anything altering in Jackson Township 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 Jackson Township, and no municipal credit applies to it. A resident of Massillon 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 Massillon and Jackson Township, 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 Massillon to Jackson Township 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. Jackson Township takes about 1.5% because you work there, Massillon charges about 2% because you live there, and the home city credits some of the first against the second.
Does working in a different town cost me anything?
On this route, nothing. You owe exactly what you would have owed working at home — the boundary is real on a map and invisible on your pay stub, which is not true of every pair of towns here.
Is this a common enough commute to be worth modeling?
Yes — 1,713 people make this exact journey, according to the federal employment survey that tracks where workers live against where they work. Routes below a volume floor are not published, so a page existing here means the commute is real and measured.
How does a resident credit allocate liability between two municipalities?
Both jurisdictions assert a claim: Jackson Township on the basis of work location at about 1.5%, Massillon on residence at about 2%. 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.
Why is the marginal cost of this crossing zero?
Marginal liability from working outside the residence jurisdiction is zero on this route. The crossing alters the distribution of revenue between jurisdictions but not the employee's total. ⚠️ This is route-specific and does not generalise to other pairs in the same dataset.
What is the basis for including this route?
Route volume is 1,713 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.