This is a situation that I wonder if anyone else has faced.
A little background about taxation in Ohio..Cities are allowed to tax the wages of all earners who work within the bounds of the city. Then, if the employee happens to reside in a city with a higher tax rate, he owes the difference to the residence city.
The sitaution I am writing about is this. Wright-Patterson AFB spans two counties. The recently established city in one of the counties is writing letters to contractor companies requesting that they start withholding city tax (1.5%) from those employees who work in the buildings on base that are within the city limits. In fact, in some cases the city line splits buildings right down the middle!
This city has attempted to get the Air Force to apply this tax to the government workers as well as the contractors, without any success so far.
Question...Up till now, we have always thought by working on a Federal installation we were "immune" from such local taxation. However, there was some law passed in the 40's, I believe, which allows this. I was wondering if anybody here has had to pay local income tax while working on Federal land.
A little background about taxation in Ohio..Cities are allowed to tax the wages of all earners who work within the bounds of the city. Then, if the employee happens to reside in a city with a higher tax rate, he owes the difference to the residence city.
The sitaution I am writing about is this. Wright-Patterson AFB spans two counties. The recently established city in one of the counties is writing letters to contractor companies requesting that they start withholding city tax (1.5%) from those employees who work in the buildings on base that are within the city limits. In fact, in some cases the city line splits buildings right down the middle!
This city has attempted to get the Air Force to apply this tax to the government workers as well as the contractors, without any success so far.
Question...Up till now, we have always thought by working on a Federal installation we were "immune" from such local taxation. However, there was some law passed in the 40's, I believe, which allows this. I was wondering if anybody here has had to pay local income tax while working on Federal land.