No city income tax in Shiawassee County

Work in Flint, live in Owosso, and you’ll hand Flint half a percent of what you earn there — that’s the closest thing to a city income tax a Shiawassee County paycheck ever meets. None of the county’s five cities charges one. Owosso, Corunna, Durand, Laingsburg, and Perry all sit outside the club of 24 Michigan cities that tax wages, even though the county is ringed by members: Flint, 25 miles east on M-21, has taxed income since 1964; Lansing since 1968; East Lansing, a half-hour for a Laingsburg commuter, since 2019. Saginaw to the north runs one as well. Flint, Lansing, and East Lansing all use the standard split — 1% from their own residents, 0.5% from the out-of-towners who fill their offices and shop floors.

So the county line works like a filter. Live and work inside it, and no city touches your wages. Commute out, and the paycheck city takes its share through withholding, right at the source.

What actually varies inside the county is the property-tax bill. In 2025 a Durand homeowner paid about 53 mills on a principal residence; a comparable house in Owosso Township paid about 28. Between those two numbers sits most of the local tax story — every paycheck from Perry to Corunna clears untouched.