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Reliance on Personal Property Taxation

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

Mecosta 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
Aetna Twp	$13.148	$1.324	10.1%	$23.897	$2.438	10.2%	$1.114	84.2%
Austin Twp	$34.962	$15.900	45.5%	$37.917	$12.169	32.1%	$ (3.731)	-23.5%
Big Rapids City	$75.687	$13.095	17.3%	$116.787	$23.802	20.4%	$10.707	81.8%
Big Rapids Charter Twp	$28.429	$2.465	8.7%	$61.590	$5.094	8.3%	$2.628	106.6%
Chippewa Twp	$18.364	$1.483	8.1%	$27.507	$1.709	6.2%	$0.226	15.3%
Colfax Twp	$21.919	$2.786	12.7%	$33.807	$3.198	9.5%	$0.413	14.8%
Deerfield Twp	$10.420	$0.456	4.4%	$17.506	$1.104	6.3%	$0.648	142.3%
Fork Twp	$15.258	$1.503	9.8%	$22.633	$1.605	7.1%	$0.102	6.8%
Grant Twp	$9.331	$0.605	6.5%	$12.059	$0.536	4.4%	$ (0.070)	-11.5%
Green Charter Twp	$26.296	$2.631	10.0%	$42.386	$4.727	11.2%	$2.096	79.7%
Hinton Twp	$10.690	$1.195	11.2%	$16.353	$2.014	12.3%	$0.819	68.5%
Martiny Twp	$21.718	$1.575	7.2%	$35.757	$1.594	4.5%	$0.020	1.2%
Mecosta Twp	$21.719	$1.364	6.3%	$37.300	$1.481	4.0%	$0.117	8.6%
Millbrook Twp	$13.024	$3.603	27.7%	$17.665	$2.924	16.6%	$ (0.679)	-18.8%
Morton Twp	$69.848	$2.214	3.2%	$132.289	$5.328	4.0%	$3.114	140.7%
Sheridan Twp	$12.843	$0.292	2.3%	$17.585	$0.662	3.8%	$0.370	126.5%
Wheatland Twp	$15.710	$3.082	19.6%	$25.672	$5.369	20.9%	$2.286	74.2%
Totals	$419.367	$55.572	13.3%	$678.711	$75.753	11.2%	$20.181	36.3%

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