Springfield Township to Maumee
Ohio municipal income tax, Chapter 718 framework · credit set by Springfield Township ordinance · tax year 2026
Work city takes
1.5%
Maumee, on income earned there
Home city charges
2.4%
Springfield Township, residents
Credit back
$450
a share of the work tax
Cost of the commute
$450
a year, above working at home
What it costs you
partial creditSpringfield Township credits only part of what Maumee takes, so the remainder is taxed twice. Solid is what you pay; the faded part of the Springfield 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
- Springfield Township gives back some of what Maumee takes, but not all of it. The credit covers about 50% of the work city's tax and no more. Whatever is left over, you pay twice. That comes to $450 a year beyond what living and working in Springfield Township would have cost.
- This route from Springfield Township is 2 of 3 recorded commutes into Maumee, with around 717 people on it. Treat the ranking loosely. Only flows above a certain size are published at all.
- Springfield Township credits only part of what its residents pay elsewhere. Its ordinance allows about 50% of tax paid to another municipality, and on this pairing that share, rather than the income ceiling, is what limits the relief. Against $900 withheld by Maumee, the credit returns $450, leaving Springfield Township to collect the balance of its about 2.4% resident levy. The workplace accounts for $450; the year's local total is $1,890.
- Maumee records 3 qualifying commuting origins in this dataset, of which Springfield Township ranks 2 by worker count at approximately 717. 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
| Maumee takes, on income earned there | $900 |
|---|---|
| Springfield Township charges residents | $1,440 |
| Less the credit Springfield Township gives back | $450 |
| Total local tax | $1,890 |
| If you also lived in Maumee | $1,440 |
| Difference | $450 |
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
- Here is the shape of it, because the arithmetic is easy to get wrong. You are taxed by both cities. What happens next is up to Springfield Township: it may credit all of what Maumee took, some of it, or none at all. That choice belongs to the city rather than to the state, which is why identical salaries in neighboring towns land so differently.
- One thing to keep in mind. Ohio does not require Springfield Township to give any credit at all. That choice sits with the city, and cities revisit it. A vote in Springfield Township could change what this commute to Maumee 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 Maumee, and the credit from Springfield Township does not touch it. If your district charges one, add it to everything here.
- These figures are the local layer alone. Whatever Springfield Township and Maumee 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.
- 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 Springfield Township. The percentages are the durable part of this page, and they do not shift with what you earn in Maumee.
- 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. Maumee taxes what is earned within its boundaries, Springfield Township taxes its residents on everything, and Springfield Township then credits some, all or none of what Maumee collected. The credit is the entire mechanism, and it is set by Springfield Township rather than by the state.
- The credit rule modeled here is Springfield Township's own, adopted by ordinance and amendable by Springfield 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 Springfield Township can therefore change every figure on this page without anything altering in Maumee 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 Maumee, and no municipal credit applies to it. A resident of Springfield 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 Springfield Township and Maumee, 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 Springfield Township to Maumee 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. Maumee taxes you for working there at about 1.5%; Springfield Township then charges its own about 2.4% 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?
$450 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 Springfield 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?
717 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: Maumee on the basis of work location at about 1.5%, Springfield Township on residence at about 2.4%. 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 $450 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 717 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.