Income from Box 18, Local wages, tips, etc. will not affect what you owe on your federal and state income taxes @aeh2020, Something else must have changed.
Box 19, Local income tax, is a possible deduction, depending on whether you are using itemized deductions.
Go back into your W-2 and change all your Box 18 and 19 amounts to $0 and see if you still owe tax. If you do, it means your tax owed has nothing to due with your locality taxes (make sure to change the amounts back to what they were before moving forward).
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