Is there a city income tax in Ontonagon?

Good news for anyone moving to Ontonagon County: there’s no city income tax here. In fact, the question is almost moot, because Ontonagon County doesn’t have any cities at all. Its only incorporated community is the Village of Ontonagon, the county seat — everywhere else in this big, wild county is township land. And Michigan’s city income tax is exactly that: a tax that only cities can levy, not villages or townships.

About two dozen Michigan cities do charge a local income tax — Detroit, Grand Rapids, Saginaw, and the like — but none of them is anywhere near here. The whole Upper Peninsula has none, and the nearest town that charges one is Grayling, clear across the state and well over two hundred miles away in the Lower Peninsula. So as an Ontonagon 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.