Plain Township to Green
Ohio municipal income tax, Chapter 718 framework · credit set by Plain Township ordinance · tax year 2026
Work city takes
2%
Green, on income earned there
Home city charges
1.5%
Plain 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 creditPlain Township credits nothing for tax paid to Green, so both bills stand in full. Solid is what you pay; the faded part of the Plain 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. Plain Township does not. It charges residents about 1.5% whether or not another city has already taken a share of the same pay. Green takes about 2% first, and none of it comes back. The year's local tax works out at $2,100.
- This route from Plain Township is 4 of 4 recorded commutes into Green, with around 554 people on it. Treat the ranking loosely. Only flows above a certain size are published at all.
- Neither municipality yields on this pairing. Green taxes income earned inside its boundaries at about 2%, and Plain Township taxes its residents' income wherever it is earned at about 1.5%. Plain Township allows no credit for tax paid to another municipality, so both liabilities stand undiminished — $1,200 to the workplace and $900 to the residence, $2,100 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.
- Green records 4 qualifying commuting origins in this dataset, of which Plain Township ranks 4 by worker count at approximately 554. 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.
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
| Green takes, on income earned there | $1,200 |
|---|---|
| Plain Township charges residents | $900 |
| Less the credit Plain Township gives back | $0 |
| Total local tax | $2,100 |
| If you also lived in Green | $900 |
| 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
- 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. Green taxes what you earn there, Plain Township taxes everything you earn, and then Plain Township decides how much of the first bill to give back.
- These figures rest on a local rule, not a state one. Plain Township decides how much credit to give for tax already paid to Green. 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 Plain Township and Green 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 Plain Township and Green. 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 Plain Township. The percentages are the durable part of this page, and they do not shift with what you earn in Green.
- 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. Green taxes what is earned within its boundaries, Plain Township taxes its residents on everything, and Plain Township then credits some, all or none of what Green collected. The credit is the entire mechanism, and it is set by Plain Township rather than by the state.
- The credit rule modeled here is Plain Township's own, adopted by ordinance and amendable by Plain 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 Plain Township can therefore change every figure on this page without anything altering in Green 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 Green, and no municipal credit applies to it. A resident of Plain 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 Plain Township and Green, 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 Plain Township to Green 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. Green takes about 2% because you work there, Plain Township charges about 1.5% because you live there, and the home city credits some of the first against the second.
What does crossing this boundary actually cost me?
About $1,200 a year. That is the gap between this commute and an identical job in Plain Township, and it exists purely because the boundary sits between them.
Why does my home town not credit the whole of what the other one took?
Because the credit is set locally, and Plain Township chose not to make it whole. A city that credits everything gives up revenue from every resident who works elsewhere, so most cap it — which is exactly where a commuter's extra cost comes from.
Is this commute common enough for the numbers to mean anything?
554 people travel it. Volume decides whether a route gets published at all, never what the tax on it is.
How does a resident credit allocate liability between two municipalities?
Both jurisdictions assert a claim: Green on the basis of work location at about 2%, Plain Township on residence at about 1.5%. 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 554 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.