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Reliance on Personal Property Taxation

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

Isabella 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
Broomfield Twp	$12.698	$1.179	9.3%	$27.302	$3.489	12.8%	$2.310	195.9%
Chippewa Twp	$32.623	$7.635	23.4%	$48.740	$9.491	19.5%	$1.856	24.3%
Clare City	$0.275	$0.186	67.6%	$2.512	$0.340	13.5%	$0.154	83.2%
Coe Twp	$28.620	$1.405	4.9%	$42.466	$2.456	5.8%	$1.051	74.8%
Coldwater Twp	$9.180	$2.601	28.3%	$13.394	$2.040	15.2%	$ (0.561)	-21.6%
Deerfield Twp	$30.166	$1.156	3.8%	$57.465	$2.993	5.2%	$1.837	158.9%
Denver Twp	$9.868	$0.651	6.6%	$16.149	$1.279	7.9%	$0.627	96.3%
Fremont Twp	$11.608	$0.842	7.3%	$21.642	$3.986	18.4%	$3.144	373.5%
Gilmore Twp	$14.172	$2.053	14.5%	$23.164	$1.710	7.4%	$ (0.342)	-16.7%
Isabella Twp	$19.979	$3.121	15.6%	$29.590	$4.461	15.1%	$1.341	43.0%
Lincoln Twp	$15.809	$0.463	2.9%	$25.906	$0.889	3.4%	$0.425	91.8%
Mt. Pleasant City	$160.555	$14.539	9.1%	$261.266	$35.923	13.7%	$21.384	147.1%
Nottawa Twp	$19.841	$0.847	4.3%	$35.098	$1.584	4.5%	$0.736	86.9%
Rolland Twp	$9.823	$0.459	4.7%	$16.823	$0.956	5.7%	$0.497	108.4%
Sherman Twp	$19.886	$0.725	3.6%	$40.328	$1.364	3.4%	$0.639	88.1%
Union Charter Twp	$60.899	$9.041	14.8%	$119.793	$15.468	12.9%	$6.427	71.1%
Vernon Twp	$14.913	$2.522	16.9%	$21.471	$2.558	11.9%	$0.037	1.5%
Wise Twp	$10.427	$0.668	6.4%	$16.543	$0.821	5.0%	$0.154	23.1%
Totals	$481.345	$50.091	10.4%	$819.650	$91.807	11.2%	$41.716	83.3%

9 municipalities increased their reliance on personal property, 9 decreased.