Is there a city income tax in Marquette?

Good news for anyone moving to Marquette County: there’s no city income tax here. Michigan does let cities charge a local income tax — about two dozen of them do, including Detroit, Grand Rapids, and Saginaw — but none of Marquette County’s three cities does. Not Marquette, the county seat and the largest city in the whole Upper Peninsula; not Ishpeming or Negaunee out on the iron range. And no community anywhere in the U.P. charges one.

Marquette 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 Marquette 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.