Apparently Ohio employers can withhold tax for the both the city worked in and the city resided in. You can file your Cleveland and Painesville taxes separately, and you should get refunded from Painesville if you have to pay Cleveland.
You may want to leave the Local Tax info off your W-2 entry so you don't have issues Efiling.
Here's a link to Ohio Municipal Sites to help you.
From @Hal_Al:
"Any Ohio city, with an income tax, is allowed to have withholding taken out of your pay while you worked in that city. Your employer is REQUIRED to do that withholding. He is not required to withhold for your residence city.
Employers are only required to withhold for the work city, although many will voluntarily withhold for the resident city as well. Employees of most big companies, in Ohio, seldom owe any city tax, at tax time (but they still have to file a resident city return), because the employer holds out exactly the right amount for both work and resident city, taking into account the credit.
Yes, many people pay have to both cities, although "double" is rare. But not all people have to pay twice, many cities allow their resident a full credit for what they paid the work city."
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