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Rahm calls for the largest property tax hike in modern Chicago history

By Ted Dabrowski

09/03/2015

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel calls for property-tax hikes, garbage-collection fees and ridesharing surcharges as a stop-gap measure to plug the city’s $750 million budget hole.

TAGS: Chicago, CPS: Chicago Public Schools, fees, Rahm Emanuel

Cook County’s exodus revealed in new tax documents

By Austin Berg

09/02/2015

Shrinking opportunities go hand in hand with a shrinking tax base.

Illinois is losing taxpayers from every income bracket and age group

By Michael Lucci

08/26/2015

Newly released IRS migration data reveal that high-income earners and prime working-age residents left Illinois in record numbers in 2011 and 2012.

IRS data reveal 2012 was Illinois’ worst year of taxpayer and wealth migration yet

By Michael Lucci

08/25/2015

Newly released data from the IRS reveal that in 2012, Illinois lost more taxpayers and taxpayer wealth to a greater number of states than ever before.

TAGS: IRS: Internal Revenue Service, outmigration

Income of out-migrants from Illinois jumped by $8,000 in first year of 2011 income-tax hike

By Michael Lucci

08/17/2015

Illinois’ tax hikes and anti-growth regulatory environment drive away taxpayers and businesses

TAGS: income tax

2011 income tax hike drove wealthier Illinoisans to other states

By Michael Lucci

08/10/2015

The average income of people leaving Illinois shot up by $8,000 in the first year of the state’s 2011 income tax hike.

TAGS: income tax

New IRS data show heavy drain of residents and income from Cook County

By Austin Berg

08/03/2015

Cook County said goodbye to nearly 10,000 more taxpayers than it welcomed in tax year 2011.

TAGS: Chicago, Cook County, IRS: Internal Revenue Service, outmigration

New IRS data: Illinois lost migration battles with every Midwestern state

By Michael Lucci

08/03/2015

A new data release from the Internal Revenue Service can only be described as a complete embarrassment for the Prairie State.

TAGS: IRS: Internal Revenue Service, outmigration

Growing tax burden will push people out of Cook County and Chicago

By Ted Dabrowski, John Klingner

07/15/2015

City officials are pushing property-tax hikes, sales-tax hikes, and even a commuter tax and financial-transaction tax.

TAGS: sales tax

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FAQ: How the federal scholarship program would help Illinois students

Illinois students could soon benefit from scholarship money to help them find a tutor, attend ACT or SAT prep sessions, pay tuition, get special education services or assist with other academic needs. That will happen in Illinois only if Gov. J.B. Pritzker lets the state’s schoolchildren benefit from the Federal Scholarship Tax Credit program, established...

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