Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan presented his budget for the 2026 fiscal year, which will begin on July 1, 2025. Duggan is proposing an 8.7% overall increase in spending, which includes a $3 million reduction in debt millage and a reduction in property taxes for Detroiters.

Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan on Friday proposed a 3-mill property tax cut and boosts in spending for bus and homelessness services while presenting his $3 billion budget for the next fiscal year. Duggan told to City Council members that the millage reduction would mean a property tax cut of $150 a year for a $100,000 home in Michigan's largest city.

Now in his final year in office, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan seeks to make a big dent in the city's notoriously high property taxes.