Sylvania Township to Sylvania
Ohio municipal income tax, Chapter 718 framework · credit set by Sylvania Township ordinance · tax year 2026
Work city takes
1.5%
Sylvania, on income earned there
Home city charges
1.5%
Sylvania Township, 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 taxSylvania Township credits only part of what Sylvania takes, so the remainder is taxed twice. Solid is what you pay; the faded part of the Sylvania 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
- Some Ohio commutes cost you real money. This one does not. Sylvania Township gives full credit for the tax Sylvania takes out of your pay, so the two settle down to the same bill you would owe at home. On sixty thousand that is $900 for the year. The commute shifts money between city halls and leaves your total alone.
- This one is balanced on a knife edge. What Sylvania takes is exactly what Sylvania Township is willing to credit — no more. It costs you nothing today. It would cost you from the very first dollar if either city moved its rate.
- Sylvania draws workers from 2 places in this data, and Sylvania Township is 2 of them by size, with about 1,103 people. It is a short list. Smaller routes into the city exist below the counting threshold.
- This pairing is neutral to the worker. Sylvania withholds about 1.5% on income earned there, and Sylvania Township, which levies about 1.5% on residents, credits that payment in full without reaching its own ceiling. Liability at the reference salary is therefore $900 — precisely what the same earnings would attract with no commute at all. What the arrangement alters is the division of revenue between Sylvania and Sylvania Township, not the sum leaving the worker's pay.
- This pairing sits exactly on its limit. Sylvania's rate and the ceiling Sylvania Township places on its credit coincide to the cent, so the credit absorbs the work-city tax precisely and not a dollar further. The commute is costless today and has no margin whatsoever: any increase by Sylvania, or any reduction in the ceiling by Sylvania Township, falls directly on the worker from the first dollar.
- Sylvania records 2 qualifying commuting origins in this dataset, of which Sylvania Township ranks 2 by worker count at approximately 1,103. 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
| Sylvania takes, on income earned there | $900 |
|---|---|
| Sylvania Township charges residents | $900 |
| Less the credit Sylvania Township gives back | $900 |
| Total local tax | $900 |
| If you also lived in Sylvania | $900 |
| 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 Sylvania and Sylvania Township charge you. Sylvania Township may then hand back what Sylvania 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 Sylvania Township to give any credit at all. That choice sits with the city, and cities revisit it. A vote in Sylvania Township could change what this commute to Sylvania costs you, with no change in the law itself.
- Watch for one more local tax. School district income tax is separate from what Sylvania Township and Sylvania 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 Sylvania Township and Sylvania. 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 Sylvania charges and what Sylvania 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. Sylvania taxes what is earned within its boundaries, Sylvania Township taxes its residents on everything, and Sylvania Township then credits some, all or none of what Sylvania collected. The credit is the entire mechanism, and it is set by Sylvania Township rather than by the state.
- The credit rule modeled here is Sylvania Township's own, adopted by ordinance and amendable by Sylvania 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 Sylvania Township can therefore change every figure on this page without anything altering in Sylvania 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 Sylvania, and no municipal credit applies to it. A resident of Sylvania 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 Sylvania Township and Sylvania, 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 Sylvania Township to Sylvania 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. Sylvania taxes you for working there at about 1.5%; Sylvania Township then charges its own about 1.5% and credits part of the first against it. Whether anything is left over depends on how generous that credit is.
Does working in a different town cost me anything?
Nothing extra. The tax is redirected rather than increased, so this particular crossing costs you no more than working in Sylvania Township would.
Is this a common enough commute to be worth modeling?
It is. 1,103 workers travel this pair, per the federal origin-destination survey; smaller routes fall below the publication floor and get no page.
Both towns charge the same — does the boundary matter at all then?
Not for what you pay. Both sides charge about 1.5%; the line only determines who banks it.
How does a resident credit allocate liability between two municipalities?
Both jurisdictions assert a claim: Sylvania on the basis of work location at about 1.5%, Sylvania 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.
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 1,103 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.
What is the effect of identical rates either side of the boundary?
Both jurisdictions levy about 1.5%, so the governing rate is identical regardless of which rule allocates it. The boundary affects revenue attribution between authorities, not employee liability.