Hall Crafting 'Modern Proposal A' Plan To Lower Property Taxes

(Source: MIRS.news, Published 12/05/2025) In the new legislative year, House Speaker Matt Hall (R-Richland Township) is planning to introduce a property tax cut proposal that gives Michigan voters two choices on how to replace the lost dollars for local governments and schools.

The Speaker told the Off the Record panel this would be a revenue-neutral plan, and one of the options to replace the lost revenue from the property tax cut “may deal with the sales tax . . . this is one of the ways you could deal with it." He said his staff has given him “20 options” and he is currently working down the list to find two that he wants to “put up for a vote next year.”

To put something on the statewide ballot would take a supermajority vote in the House and Senate. Hall hopes to have the details in place next year. He emphasizes this is not a tax increase' but a tax shift.

The strategy is patterned after the original Proposal A property tax proposal of 1994 during the Engler administration, when voters were given a choice between an income tax hike and the sales tax. Voters supported Proposal A with the sales tax.

One of the approaches Hall is considering is allowing the Democrats to pick the alternative revenue source for the second option.