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Reliance on Personal Property Taxation

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

Cass 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
Calvin Twp	$21.492	$0.677	3.1%	$39.367	$1.030	2.6%	$0.353	52.2%
Dowigiac City	$51.718	$10.735	20.8%	$74.308	$18.706	25.2%	$7.972	74.3%
Howard Twp	$55.559	$4.436	8.0%	$97.844	$9.931	10.1%	$5.495	123.9%
Jefferson Twp	$23.836	$1.768	7.4%	$41.467	$1.833	4.4%	$0.065	3.7%
La Grange Twp	$38.359	$3.755	9.8%	$57.890	$5.629	9.7%	$1.873	49.9%
Marcellus Twp	$25.629	$1.647	6.4%	$40.258	$2.759	6.9%	$1.111	67.4%
Mason Twp	$20.397	$1.361	6.7%	$33.566	$2.234	6.7%	$0.873	64.1%
Milton Twp	$23.889	$2.143	9.0%	$42.668	$3.098	7.3%	$0.954	44.5%
Newberg Twp	$21.297	$1.559	7.3%	$29.319	$2.906	9.9%	$1.347	86.4%
Niles	$0.006	$0.000	0.0%	$0.027	$0.000	0.0%	N/A	N/A
Ontwa Twp	$60.897	$4.081	6.7%	$106.328	$7.598	7.1%	$3.517	86.2%
Penn Twp	$42.419	$2.392	5.6%	$78.581	$3.758	4.8%	$1.365	57.1%
Pokagon Twp	$24.515	$1.411	5.8%	$35.617	$3.086	8.7%	$1.675	118.7%
Porter Twp	$57.192	$1.971	3.4%	$102.755	$3.081	3.0%	$1.110	56.3%
Silver Creek Twp	$59.268	$2.836	4.8%	$110.513	$5.166	4.7%	$2.330	82.2%
Volinia Twp	$16.002	$0.448	2.8%	$22.477	$0.948	4.2%	$0.501	111.8%
Wayne Twp	$28.628	$3.469	12.1%	$44.891	$6.353	14.2%	$2.884	83.1%
Totals	$571.104	$44.690	7.8%	$957.874	$78.115	8.2%	$33.425	74.8%

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