Scioto works out your Ohio city return - 2.5% in Columbus on wages and net profit, the credit for tax another city took, an old loss carried in - keeps the four estimated payments on their dates, and will not let the balance go in short.
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The problem
A Columbus resident pays 2.5% on all income, wherever earned - the profit on a Schedule C included - on a city return apart from the state's. A loss year still needs the return. Expect to owe more than $200 and there are four estimated payments besides.
Columbus's tax on all of a resident's income - wages and sole-proprietor profit, wherever earned.
City of Columbus IR-25 →credit for tax paid to the city you worked in, up to 2.5% of that income.
City of Columbus IR-25 →a Schedule C means a city return - and the loss is never set against wages.
City of Columbus →Not a reminder. An estimate is refused without a declaration, twice for a quarter, or under 25% of what you declared. A return is refused before the year ends, twice, without the net profit, or paid short of the balance due - and one filed late says so. Nothing is deleted.
How it works
This year's estimate, if you expect to owe more than $200.
April 15, June 15, September 15, January 15.
Wages, profit, the old loss, the credit - the balance worked out.
What it will never do
Scioto holds returns and payments, nothing more.
Pricing
For one creator.
The estimates and the return.
Monthly. Your bank statement says Scioto Software. Your licence key is on your screen as soon as the payment confirms.
Pay by card through Square, on Square’s own checkout page — we never see or store your card number. Or pay with bitcoin through our own bitcoin server. Either way you come back here, type your business name, and your licence key is on the screen — no email, no waiting on us.
Questions
Yes. A Schedule C means a city return, loss or not. The loss is entered as zero, never set against your wages, and carries forward to later profit.
Columbus credits it, 100% up to 2.5% of that income. Scioto takes it off.
Put its rate, its credit limit and its source in the rates panel.
No. It is the arithmetic and the record.
The demo on this page is the whole program, running on invented records. Paying gets you a licence key — one line of text, on your screen as soon as the payment confirms: the checkout brings you back to our thank-you page, you type your business name and the key appears. Paste it into the program and from then on it keeps your own records. Until then, nothing you type into it is kept.
The key is checked inside the page, on your own machine. It never calls us, so there is still no account and nothing about your business goes anywhere. If you ever stop paying, your records stay exactly where they are, read-only, and Export still hands you every one of them.
An invented Columbus creator has a loss year filed and a year of estimates paid - last year's return is waiting.