Tax Protest for McHenry Township – Part 3

This is the third count of Tim Dwyer’s tax protest suit against McHenry Township:

MCHENRY ROAD DISTRICT – EXCESSIVE ACCUMULATION

With respect to the Road District, the Road and Bridge Fund, coupled with the Equipment and Building Fund, the Road District had reserves in excess of $5,900,000.

According to its own audit, the Township and the Road District have over 7 million dollars in unrestricted funds.

The annual three year expenses for the Road and Bridge Funds and the Permanent Road Fund were approximately $2,895,440.

The tax revenue on hand was at least twice the amount of the annual expenditure.

As such, the Road and Bridge Fund, as well as the Equipment and Building Fund, are excessive, invalid and illegal.

Therefore, the entire levy rate of .350649 is excessive and illegal, and should be rebated back to the Objectors.

WHEREFORE, Plaintiff Tax Protestors pray that this Court consider the matters raised herein, find, determine and otherwise adjudicate that the Road District levy adopted by McHenry Township on behalf of the McHenry Road District is illegal, void and excessive as a matter of law, order that the McHenry County Treasurer issue full rebate payments to the Tax Objectors, award statutory interest pursuant to 35 ILCS 200/23-20, et. seq. and issue whatever further relief this Court deems just and appropriate.


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Tax Protest for McHenry Township – Part 3 — 5 Comments

  1. McHenry Township’s mismanagement and overtaxation in the news again!

    Even though the township’s current incumbents were booted from the GOP, they re trying to run as independents to realize the fat salary increases they voted in this term for themselves.

    These tax-creeps keep stealing from my wallet to fatten their salaries!

    Hard to believe, but Chicago abolished its unnecessary townships over a hundred years ago …. and several counties did likewise during the Depression!

    Cook County is organized into townships except for the city of Chicago: in 1902, voters in Chicago chose to abolish the eight townships in the city.[4]

    There are 17 counties with no township government: Alexander, Calhoun, Edwards, Hardin, Johnson, Massac, Menard, Monroe, Morgan, Perry, Pope, Pulaski, Randolph, Scott, Union, Wabash, and Williamson.[4] Each of those counties is instead divided into precincts.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Illinois_townships

    Evanston Township was finally abolished in 2014 when the taxpayers woke up and realized they were being fleeced like dumb sheep.

    “With 44 of 53 precincts reporting, 63.23 percent of more than 7,500 voters had chosen to support the referendum to abolish the township.

    The township, which has the same boundaries as the city of Evanston, provides tax advice to residents and general assistance to the needy. The referendum was subject to lengthy debate. Advocates argued it was not providing the necessary assistance and would save money if abolished, and opponents said the city is not prepared to absorb the township services.

    Under Illinois law, all township services will be transferred to the municipal government. Two years ago, a similar ratio of voters elected to pursue dissolution in a nonbinding referendum.”

    https://dailynorthwestern.com/2014/03/18/city/evanston-votes-to-abolish-township/

  2. It would be really nice to take the emotion of hack hack and look at the deal as trying to actually save on property taxes.

    We have the type of government we have, we are not the same as other areas in the state or nation either.

    Any changed needs careful consideration before any changes are made.

    Accumulation of numbers, related facts, and factors any change would bring, in other words forming a viable plan that will actually save on our property taxes.

    City of Evanston has raised the property tax levy just under 4% since the township was abolished, my township has froze it’s levy and is planning to reduce it next year.

    Maybe Mark would use his fine research talents and evaluate the change in taxes in that area for us, I kind of got lost in the mambo jumbo of the Evanston budget when researching through it.

    For instance the city reported saving on taxation in public assistance, but yet on another paragraph said the savings was almost all rolled over into the public assistance program they already had.

    Of course even then it wouldn’t be apples to apples because of the lack of similarity in gov and related boundaries.

  3. The Southern Illinois counties most likely do not have townships not because they abolished, but because the area was settle by people from southern states, where there are no townships.

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