Illinois Tied for 7th in Highest Per Capita Taxes

10.7% of annual income is what Illinois residents have been found to pay.

That puts Illinois in a tie with New Jersey.

The calculation by the Wall Street Journal, a summary of which can be found here, however, includes Illinois average property taxes.

Cook County’s real estate taxes are so much lower than ours that I believe our local ranking would be even higher.


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Illinois Tied for 7th in Highest Per Capita Taxes — 16 Comments

  1. Only tied for number 7 with the most gov agencies in the USA?

    More proof that the talking point about the total number of gov agencies as the reason for high taxation in this state is BS.

  2. If the Democrat/Pritzker ‘fair’ tax passes
    Illinois will move up in the rankings.

    Winning

  3. No Percy, id just like people to form a plan before doing stupid smit.

  4. These type of ‘statewide’ statistics are rather meaningless when put on lists like this article and don’t give a true picture of tax burdens.

    A few counties in SE Conn., NE IL; S NY & W Long Is., DC vicinity in VA, etc., skew the entire state’s position on such charts.

    Nowadays metro areas provide far more reliable stochastic information.

    The mountain counties of far western VA and S. IL are far different than the metro areas.

    McHenry Co. Is the highest property taxed county in the state. Even the state gasoline excise taxes are higher than Lake and Cook.

  5. Nob, you are obviously a govt leech of some sort.

    IL should abolish and consolidate useless, overlapping, obsolete and kooky govt taxing bodies.

    Other states like IA, WI and Indiana did years ago.

    Indiana got rid of their township assessors years ago, saving millions.

    We’re in a pension crisis, blockhead, to support parasites like you!

  6. Franks is blamed as ‘the cause’ of everything wrong around here, but he’s just an opportunistic microbe.

    A mere symptom of the area GOP’s long decay and degeneration.

    Serwatka has it all pegged: the GOP are real losers and won’t put up any fight or real resistance to the onslaught of the soulless, abnormal dems like Franks, Vijuk, Wagner, Acosta and the truly evil Yensen.

    Althoff is not the answer.

    She is part of the causation of decay.

  7. Make a plan Percy, stop the lip service, I’m listening, and I will always vote to save on taxation.

    Bob Anderson and all you anti gov dudes are lazy, do the work, it’s time consuming but not that difficult.

    Start by convincing McDOT that taking over the extra roads is beneficial and how to deal more union employees and equipment.

    County Assessors, ok where will they be housed, and if county will they unionize, what about the extra travel times?

    Handing out Assistance presently is inefficient, got a plan for how to correct that?

    Maybe getting rid of the other gov welfare programs/dudes and letting the townships deal with all of it would cost less?

    What more help with your plan?

  8. I looked up why the taxes on a particular home are very high.

    They are paying for 2 high school districts.

    Seems like that is the problem.

    Why is this happening?

    SCHOOL DIST 15 4.695968 $7,466.07
    SCHOOL DIST 156 2.393413 $3,805.26
    MCHENRY COUNTY 0.786789 $1,250.94
    BULL VALLEY VILLAGE 0.635659 $1,010.63
    MCHENRY FIRE DIST 0.535240 $850.97
    COLLEGE DISTRICT 528 MCC 0.356415 $566.66
    MCHENRY LIBRARY 0.296110 $470.78
    NUNDA TWP RD & BR 0.268220 $426.44
    MCHENRY CO CONSV 0.228597 $363.44
    NUNDA TOWNSHIP 0.085490 $135.92
    NUNDA TWP CEMETERY 0.001695 $2.69
    TOTAL 10.283596 $16,349.80

  9. One of the school districts is a grade school district, the other a high school district.

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