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WASHTENAW COUNTY v. TAX COMM.

Docket Nos. 72445-72447, 72862, 72863. (Calendar Nos. 4, 5).

422 Mich. 346 (1985)

373 N.W.2d 697

WASHTENAW COUNTY v. STATE TAX COMMISSION LAPEER COUNTY v. STATE TAX COMMISSION OAKLAND COUNTY v. STATE TAX COMMISSION INGHAM COUNTY v. STATE TAX COMMISSION LIVINGSTON COUNTY v. STATE TAX COMMISSION

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided September 4, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harris, Lax, Gregg & Guenzel (by Robert J. Harris) for Washtenaw County.

Eugene G. Wanger for Lapeer County.

Leo Goldstein, P.C. (by Leo Goldstein), for Oakland County.

Cohl, Salstrom, Stoker & Aseltyne, P.C. (by Patrick A. Aseltyne), for Livingston and Ingham Counties.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Louis J. Caruso, Solicitor General, and Richard R. Roesch and Ross H. Bishop, Assistant Attorneys General, for the defendant.

BRICKLEY, J.

These consolidated suits involving the State Tax Commission and five Michigan counties concern principally the method of arriving at the state equalized value of real property in two respects: the effect of land contracts and other "creatively financed" transactions on "true cash value," and the need to employ a "trending" factor to the data base of sales-ratio studies in order to more accurately pinpoint the "true cash value" of property on "the tax...

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