Ontario, Ohio municipal income tax

Tax year 2026 · collected by City of Ontario Income Tax Department

1.5%

Ontario taxes wages and net profits at 1.5%. The tax is administered by City of Ontario Income Tax Department. On $50,000 of wages earned in Ontario, that's $750 a year.

Tax rate

1.5%

Resident credit

100%

of tax paid to the work city

Credit limit

of the wages taxed elsewhere

Population

6,692

Census estimate, 2025

What employers withhold

Ohio employers withhold municipal income tax for the city or village where the employee works. If an employee works in Ontario, withhold 1.5% of their qualifying wages for Ontario. Short stays in another municipality can be treated differently; check with the city tax office before you change withholding.

Ontario residents who pay tax to the city where they work get a credit of 100% of that tax, limited to 1% of the wages. If the credit doesn't fully cover Ontario's 1.5%, residents owe the difference, and some employers withhold it as a courtesy.

Details

Rate = 1% general levy (on and after 1998-01-01) + 0.5% police levy (193.012); the police levy start date is not stated.
Resident credit (193.081) is limited to tax at up to 1% on income taxed elsewhere.
The city income tax page does not state the rate; codified ordinance host returns a bot challenge to plain HTTP.
Effective date of this rate not stated on the source; 2026-01-01 used as the as-of date.

Other self-collecting municipalities at 1.5%

Running payroll in Ontario, OH?

Sources

City of Ontario Codified Ordinances, Chapter 193 (American Legal Publishing) · data as of January 1, 2026 · last checked October 9, 2026

We copy figures from official sources and re-check them against the source before every update. See our methodology. This is general information, not legal advice.