Question of the Day?

Pacman- I work full time for the University of Dayton at Wright Patterson AFB. The town of Fairborn doesn't take city taxes out of my paycheck ( I guess because I work on a government installation), so all of my city taxes go back to the city where I live- Middletown. I declare and pay my taxes, quarterly, to the city of Middletown. Does the employer town require a city tax from you? If so, I guess you must do the leg work and contact the city and set up a payment plan. If the employer city doesn't require a city tax (like mine), you must file with your residence town and pay their going rate of taxes, which is what I have to do. If the employer town is 1.5% and the residence town's tax rate is 2.0%, you pay the difference of 0.5% to your residence town.If the employer town tax rate is higher than the residence town, you pay nothing to the residence town. That's as I understand it to be. Sound right- anybody???

Why do you damn Ohians got to make taxes so damn difficult.   Now let me throw another monkey wrench into the mess.  My wife doesn't go to Cincy and go to work, she travels between Dayton and Kentucky, so would that be basically working out of your home and Middletown gets all of the Tax.  Man I love Ohio TAXES

I, too, have gotten the "pay us in full" letter from the city of Middletown. I then ignore that, declare my income at the beginning of the year and pay them quarterly as they bill me. Seems to work for me and the city as they haven't indicated that they have a problem with it. Have done this method for years.As a side note: My wife, who has worked for 30 years and now is medically unable due to 4 bypasses and 2 heart attacks, must file even though her Social Security Disability income is not taxable. She declares 0 income on all tax forms (except her disability) and still has to file with this city. This is a waste of time in paperwork and to have a city employee review it.Why does this city require all people, whether you have an income or not, to file? Just clogs the system with paperwork and doesn't benefit the city at all as to revenue.

Vet, What area and building do you work at Wright-Pat?

wannaknow- Middletown requires all residents to file city income tax. If your friend draws a disability check like my wife does, he, like my wife, is required to file, claiming the disability payouts for the year. The city will then determine that it is not taxable income (which we already knew) and he will owe them nothing. Bottom line- the city still requires everyone to file if a resident, even though the income is not taxable. He doesn't have to keep going to jail. He just needs to fill out a city income tax form providing his yearly income. He was arrested for not filing- not because he owed them anything. He didn't need to pay them $500 bucks. He just needs to fill out a form which takes all of five minutes and submit it. It's like the old street camera fines- squeezing all the money they can from any source they can because they're too ignorant to generate revenue any other way. Is this town a great place or what!!!!!

Hawk- Around the 650 complex? I'm down the hill from that below the firing range.