Taxes and Fees

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Report: Consumer Taxes in Chicago as of Jan. 1, 2024

Click here to read the full report. INTRODUCTIONThis annual report lists and describes selected consumer taxes within the City of Chicago. For ease of use by non-specialists, the taxes in this report are grouped under the…

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Civic Federation Releases 2024 Report on Consumer Taxes in Chicago

The Civic Federation today released Consumer Taxes in Chicago: A Compilation of Selected Taxes in Place in the City of Chicago as of January 1, 2024. This annual report lists and describes selected consumer taxes within the City of Chicago…

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Chicago to Vote on Graduated Real Estate Transfer Tax in March 2024

In September 2023 the Chicago City Council approved placing a referendum on the March 2024 primary municipal election ballot asking voters to approve a change in the structure of the City’s real estate transfer tax (RETT) from…

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2023 Year in Review

The following are summaries of the five most-read posts presented on the Civic Federation’s blog in 2023, listed here in chronological order. The posts examine issues related to Illinois taxes and debt, Tier 2 Benefits, the SAFE-T Act…

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Illinois Casinos Generate $1.5 Billion in Revenue Over the Past Year

New data from the Illinois Gaming Board show that casino revenue gross receipts have continued their recent trend of annual growth, thereby increasing tax allocations to the State of Illinois and local governments. These data…

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How Chicago’s Effective Property Tax Rates Compare to Those of Other US Cities

The most recent edition of an annual report from the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and the Minnesota Center for Fiscal Excellence compared effective property tax rates across 53 municipalities in all 50 U.S. states. The report…

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How Should the City of Chicago Evaluate Property Tax Increases?

Throughout the 2023 Chicago mayoral campaign, Mayor Johnson stated that it was his intention to avoid increasing property taxes, citing concerns…

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Johnson Set to Start Tackling Chicago’s Pension Woes, Hemmed in by Vow Not to Raise Property Taxes

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Addressing the Financial Entanglements Between the City of Chicago and Chicago Public Schools

With the upcoming implementation of an elected school board to oversee Chicago Public Schools, the governance of CPS will be separated from the City of Chicago. The 21-member elected school…

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Public Transit in a Post-COVID World

How should Illinois pay for public transit? This was one of the key questions posed at a recent policy forum on the topic of public transportation in the…