Is there a city income tax in Keweenaw County?

Good news for anyone moving to the tip of the Keweenaw: there’s no city income tax here, and the question is just about settled before it starts. 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.

That matters because Michigan’s city income tax can only be levied by cities — not villages, not townships. About two dozen Michigan cities charge one, including Detroit and Grand Rapids, but there are none in the entire Upper Peninsula, and certainly none up here. The nearest town that charges a local income tax is Grayling, clear down in the Lower Peninsula and well over two hundred miles away. So as a Keweenaw County resident, the income taxes you’ll pay are the federal and the state — Michigan’s flat state income tax — and that’s all. Your local taxes here come through your property tax bill, not your paycheck.