Ohio City Form

[Joel]

I have a Ohio return with need for a Newark City tax form. Newark is not listed in the cities of Ohio on ATX and I cannot find a universal form. Any help would be appreciated.

[Jack from Ohio]

Add new forms. Type in "oh" then "g". Choose the general form. There will be a drop down box in the information page to allow you to choose the city.

[Janitor Bob]

Spot on Jack.....I actually like using the generic form better than trying to use the city-specific forms as I did in the past.....waiting for the forms to be released and constantly adjusting to a new form was maddening....almost all cities accept the generic, so generic it is. I do have to say, however, that the generic does not have a good way of calculating the percentage of unreimbursed employee expenses to deduct. City of Sidney allows a percentage based on unreimbursed employee expenses as a percentage of total Sch A deductions. with the generic form I need to complete that formula by hand on Sidney City printed tax form and then transfer the total to the generic form in ATX. I also then attach the page of the paper Sidney form that has my calculation to the generic to mail to Sidney....just so they know that I correctly arrived at my deduction.

[Jack from Ohio]

I like the drop down box for choosing the city this year. MUCH better than last year. I am using the generic 99% of the time. Even for RITA. Did I say that I hate the RITA forms?

[PaulH]

So RITA has no problem accepting the General form? How about CCA? That would simplify things a lot. It would be even better if the general form would pick the residence and work cities from the W-2s, and the city tax rates, credit rates, and credit limits from a table. It's always annoyed me that the RITA form forces you to enter the W-2 information again. I guess ATX is trying to sell its city tax add-on software.

[Margaret CPA in OH]

I really dislike how RITA lumps everything together. I have a client with rentals in 3 different munis and 2 have net income, one has a loss. So I have to keep a separate record of this and finagle tax due or not. And it changes sometimes. The also don't have the same tax rate so estimated payments are a challenge.

[Jack from Ohio]

ALL Ohio cities MUST accept the general forms. It is part of the Ohio Revised Code.

[Joel]

Thanks. I knew it had to be there somewhere, but seemed to have a brain-fart when I was looking.

[PaulH]

ALL Ohio cities MUST accept the general forms. It is part of the Ohio Revised Code.

Thanks. Good to know.