Why do people who live in Detroit, but work in the surburbs have to pay Detroit?
city tax? Also, how come when you file your taxes, you get money back from federal and state, but NEVER from Detroit? It seems as if I end up owing the city every year?! I can't understand how when sometimes the city takes more than the state? And what are they doing with the money? I can't anything positive, but downtown and some areas of Detroit. This city has been on a downward spiral and I don't see them climbing out of this bleak hole. I meant to write, can't see anything positive. Detroit - 4 Answers
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Answer 1 :
That's the way that the tax law is written. You could move to the suburbs.
Answer 2 :
Well, we live in the suburbs, my Husband works in Detroit (Detroit Athletic Club), and we have to pay Detroit taxes. We're getting back a whole whopping $15.00 this year. That's just the way things work and you and I are not going to change it, unfortunately.
Answer 3 :
becuase Detroit loans money to all the suburbs that you work in..all the sububurbs and towns surrounding it.. they mooch off detroit.. and then complain about it.. bein so broke down.
Answer 4 :
You live in the D so you want your garbage to be picked up, you want police & fire protection? You want the snow shoveled and the pot holes filled in? So the city needs to tax...
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