Is there a city income tax in Keweenaw County?

At the tip of the Keweenaw, the city income tax question is settled before it starts: there’s nothing to tax it through. Keweenaw County — the northernmost and least-populated county in Michigan — doesn’t have a single city. Its county seat, Eagle River, is an unincorporated community, and its one incorporated municipality is the small village of Ahmeek. Everything else is township land.

Michigan’s city income tax is a power reserved to cities — not villages, not townships. About two dozen Michigan cities levy one, Detroit and Grand Rapids among them, but not a single one sits in the entire Upper Peninsula, and certainly none up here. The nearest town that taxes your paycheck is Grayling, clear down in the Lower Peninsula and well over two hundred miles away. So in Keweenaw County the income taxes you’ll owe are the federal and the state — Michigan’s flat state rate — and that’s all. Your local share comes through the property tax bill, not the paycheck.