The City of Canfield E-File/E-Pay System

File/Pay Tax Return
Upload current and prior year documents directly to the city
Check prior year’s estimates and credit carry-forwards
File Extension
Pay current year’s Quarterly Estimates

Who must file:

• Every City of Canfield resident eighteen years of age and older: must file a Canfield income tax return.  The only exception to this is to file an annual Exemption Form if you are registered with the tax department as retired and/or disabled and your income is not subject to municipal income tax.
• Every non-resident individual: earning income in the City of Canfield not subject to employee withholding of Canfield income tax must file an annual Canfield income tax return.
• Every non-resident individual: with rental property or engaged in a business or profession in Canfield must file an annual Canfield income tax return.
• Partial-year residents: must file for the time spent as a resident of the City of Canfield. Income may be pro-rated for the time lived in Canfield. Income and tax credits may be pro-rated for the time lived in Canfield. Attach a worksheet to your return explaining your calculations.

Income Tax Forms

Current Forms

Prior- Year Tax Returns

2025 Tax Return
Tax Return Instructions
New Taxpayer Account Registration
Refund Request Form
Quarterly Estimate Voucher
Retiree Exemption Form
Change of Address Form
Landlord Registration Form
Landlord Occupancy List

2024 Tax Return
2023 Tax Return
2022 Tax Return
2021 Tax Return
2020 Tax Return
2019 Tax Return
2018 Tax Return
2017 Tax Return

Quarterly Estimates

The City of Canfield requires persons who expect to owe more than $200.00 in tax for the current filing year to make quarterly estimated tax payments.

Estimates for the current year are billed quarterly, with the exception of the first quarter—which is due to be paid with your tax return by the April filing deadline. The remaining three quarters are due by June 15th, September 15th, and January 15th. If you wish to pay your full estimate at once, you may do so.

To avoid penalty and interest, you must pay 100% of your prior year’s tax (as current year’s estimate) or 90% of your current year’s actual tax liability by the 4th quarter due date for individuals and calendar year businesses, respectively. Fiscal year businesses must remit by the last day of the month following their taxable year.

To declare an estimate if you have not already done so, or to amend your declaration of estimated tax for the current year, please complete our Quarterly Estimate Voucher.

Please contact the City of Canfield Income Tax Department with any questions.

Tax Filing Resources

I cannot locate the documents needed to file my City of Canfield tax return (W-2’s, Federal 1040, etc.):

IRS Transcript

Please use this IRS link to  request transcripts of past tax returns, tax account information, wage and income statements and non-filer letters.

Social Security

Please use this Social Security link to access your personal earnings history which may be needed to file tax returns for previous years.

I do not know whether or not I live within the city limits of Canfield:

Mahoning County Auditor

Please use this link to the Mahoning County Auditor’s website and search by address to see whether or not you live in the city limits.

The City of Canfield imposes a local tax of 1.0% on all income earned within the city. The tax is levied on both the net income and the business earned in the City of Canfield and on the wages, salaries, and other forms of compensation earned by employees of the company in the City of Canfield.

In addition to fulfilling its own tax obligations to the City, any general contractor also has the responsibility of notifying its subcontractors of the Canfield income tax.

Register with the City of Canfield:

If you have not established accounts with the City of Canfield for the purposes of filing the required business and withholding tax returns, please click on the applicable button below to complete the proper registration form and return it to our office:

The Business is fully or partially located in the City of Canfield

The Business is not located in the City of Canfield, but performs work in the City of Canfield

The Business is not located in the City of Canfield, but has employee(s) that are residents of the City

The Business or Individual owns rental property in the City of Canfield

Business Registration Form

Also, if applicable:
Contractor- sub contractor Listing

Attention! Before completing employer withholding form, please search employee’s address using the following link:

Mahoning County Auditor Property Search

• Search employee(s) address:

  

If the employee is a resident of Canfield city, the search result will show the following:

Then, complete form below to register with the city.

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Employer Withholding Registration

Landlord Registration Form
Landlord Occupancy List

Ohio Revised Code- Chapter 718
City of Canfield Ordinance- Chapter 184 (Effective 1/1/2016)
City of Canfield Ordinance- Chapter 183 (Effective through 12/31/2015)

“TAXPAYERS’ RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES” means the rights provided to taxpayers in sections 718.11 , 718.12 , 718.19, 718.23, 718.36, 718.37, 718.38, 5717.011 , and 5717.03 of the Ohio Revised Code and any corresponding ordinances of the Municipality, and the responsibilities of taxpayers to file, report, withhold, remit, and pay municipal income tax and otherwise comply with Chapter 718 of the Ohio Revised Code and resolutions, ordinances, and rules adopted by a municipal corporation for the imposition and administration of a municipal income tax.

These rights and responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

The municipal corporation shall maintain a Local Board of Tax Review to hear appeals of the taxpayer on assessments issued by the Tax Administrator.  The Taxpayer or the Tax Administrator may appeal the Final Determination of the Local Board of Tax Review.

Civil actions to recover municipal income tax, penalties and interest have time limits.

Taxpayer has a prescribed manner in which to request a refund from the Tax Administrator.

Taxpayer has a required responsibility to timely and accurately file annual returns, reports, documents, and to timely remit all taxes due on such annual returns, reports, documents and filings.

At or before the commencement of an audit (where the tax administrator has ordered the appearance of the taxpayer), the Tax Administrator shall inform and provide the Taxpayer with certain information regarding the audit.

Taxpayer has a required responsibility to allow examination of their books, papers, records, and federal and state income tax returns by the tax administrator.

Taxpayer has certain recourse if aggrieved by an action or omission of the Tax Administrator, their employee or an employee of the municipal corporation.

Ohio Revised Code 718.27 requires the Tax Administrator to publish, by October 31st, the established interest rate for tax underpayments based on the federal short-term rate that will apply during the next calendar year.

Interest shall be imposed per annum, on all unpaid income tax, unpaid estimated income tax and unpaid withholding tax.

The interest rate used shall be the federal short-term rate (rounded to the nearest whole number percent) plus five percent (5%).  The rate shall apply for the calendar year next following the July of the year in which the federal short-term rate is determined.

Note: Interest applies to any balance of tax due that is not paid by the due date of a return, even if the return is filed under extension.