BUTCHER v. DEP'T OF TREASURY

Docket No. 75282, (Calendar No. 12).

425 Mich. 262 (1986)

389 N.W.2d 412

BUTCHER v. DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided June 27, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert E. Butcher for the plaintiffs and the class.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Louis J. Caruso, Solicitor General, and Richard R. Roesch and Russell E. Prins, Assistant Attorneys General, for the defendants.


BRICKLEY, J.

The question in this case is whether a 1982 amendment of § 520 of the Income Tax Act, MCL 206.1 et seq.; MSA 7.557(101) et seq., providing that the already existing local property tax credit shall be reduced by ten percent for each thousand dollars of household income in excess of $65,000, is violative of Const 1963, art 9, § 7, which prohibits an income tax graduated as to rate or base. We hold that, because the property tax credit...

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