Plain Township to North Canton
Ohio municipal income tax, Chapter 718 framework · credit set by Plain Township ordinance · tax year 2026
Work city takes
2%
North Canton, 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 North Canton, 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
- Two cities tax this pay, and neither gives way. North Canton takes about 2% of what you earn there. Plain Township then taxes the same money at about 1.5% and hands back nothing for what North Canton already took. You pay both in full. On a salary of sixty thousand that is $2,100 a year.
- This route from Plain Township is 2 of 3 recorded commutes into North Canton, with around 840 people on it. Treat the ranking loosely. Only flows above a certain size are published at all.
- Neither municipality yields on this pairing. North Canton 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.
- North Canton records 3 qualifying commuting origins in this dataset, of which Plain Township ranks 2 by worker count at approximately 840. 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
| North Canton 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 North Canton | $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
- Do not add the two rates up, and do not assume the bigger one simply wins. Neither is how Ohio works. Both North Canton and Plain Township charge you. Plain Township may then hand back what North Canton took, or part of it, or none of it. Everything on this page turns on which of those it does.
- One thing to keep in mind. Ohio does not require Plain Township to give any credit at all. That choice sits with the city, and cities revisit it. A vote in Plain Township could change what this commute to North Canton 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 North Canton, and the credit from Plain 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 Plain Township and North Canton. 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 North Canton charges and what Plain 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. North Canton 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 North Canton 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 North Canton 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 North Canton, 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 North Canton, 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 North Canton 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?
You are taxed by both, then given credit for one. Working in North Canton costs about 2%; living in Plain Township costs about 1.5%, reduced by whatever share of the work tax the home city recognizes.
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 Plain 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?
840 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: North Canton 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 840 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.