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Is there a city income tax in Sault Ste. Marie?

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chippewa county sault ste marie income tax taxes

Good news for anyone moving to Chippewa County: there’s no city income tax here. Michigan does allow cities to charge a local income tax — about two dozen of them do, including Detroit, Grand Rapids, and Saginaw — but Sault Ste. Marie, the county seat and the only city in the county, does not. And no community anywhere in the Upper Peninsula charges one.

The Sault is a city, so it could in theory adopt one someday, but it never has. The nearest town that charges a local income tax is Grayling, down in the Lower Peninsula and well over a hundred miles away. So as a Chippewa County resident, the income taxes you’ll pay are the federal and the state — Michigan’s flat state income tax — and that’s it. Your local taxes here come through your property tax bill, not your paycheck.

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