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Reliance on Personal Property Taxation

(1988 State Equalized Value and 1998 Taxable Value in millions of dollars)

Antrim County	--------------1988--------------			--------------1998--------------			Personal Property 1988-1998
Municipalities	Total Property	Personal Property	Ratio of Personal to Total Property	Total Property	Personal Property	Ratio of Personal to Total Property	Dollar Change	Percent Change
Banks Twp	$24.501	$0.803	3.3%	$46.016	$1.354	2.9%	$0.550	68.5%
Central Lake Twp	$32.893	$1.337	4.1%	$67.948	$2.574	3.8%	$1.237	92.5%
Chestonia Twp	$5.640	$0.463	8.2%	$10.766	$2.949	27.4%	$2.486	536.9%
Custer Twp	$29.907	$1.710	5.7%	$51.711	$4.387	8.5%	$2.677	156.6%
Echo Twp	$9.481	$0.344	3.6%	$16.670	$0.809	4.9%	$0.465	135.0%
Elk Rapids Twp	$46.339	$1.704	3.7%	$121.454	$4.411	3.6%	$2.706	158.8%
Forest Home Twp	$44.716	$0.619	1.4%	$102.764	$1.127	1.1%	$0.508	82.1%
Helena Twp	$24.432	$0.431	1.8%	$60.085	$0.895	1.5%	$0.464	107.7%
Jordan Twp	$6.706	$0.277	4.1%	$16.318	$4.096	25.1%	$3.819	1378.6%
Kearney Twp	$40.437	$4.682	11.6%	$68.456	$9.512	13.9%	$4.829	103.1%
Mancelona Twp	$42.427	$4.065	9.6%	$59.842	$11.451	19.1%	$7.386	181.7%
Milton Twp	$56.447	$0.681	1.2%	$151.636	$1.597	1.1%	$0.916	134.5%
Star Twp	$15.944	$0.325	2.0%	$21.161	$2.236	10.6%	$1.911	588.2%
Torch Lake Twp	$38.378	$0.445	1.2%	$115.153	$0.969	0.8%	$0.524	117.8%
Warner Twp	$4.890	$0.156	3.2%	$13.233	$5.981	45.2%	$5.825	3728.7%
Totals	$423.139	$18.043	4.3%	$923.212	$54.347	5.9%	$36.305	201.2%

8 municipalities increased their reliance on personal property, 7 decreased.