Fire Protection District Foreign Insurance Expenditures – Cary

Freedom of Information requests were sent to each of McHenry County’s Fire Protection Districts this weekend asking for expenditures of the 2% tax paid by businesses who have an out-of-state insurer.

Before discovering that the Huntley Fire Protection District used such money to purchase custom made conference and kitchen tables, I admit to not even knowing about the tax.

Cary was the first FPD to respond:

Our district does not have a bargaining unit (Union) therefore, we are not required to have a Foreign Fire Board. 

We allocate those tax dollars to our Personal Protective Equipment.


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Fire Protection District Foreign Insurance Expenditures – Cary — 2 Comments

  1. Cal, what is the rationale for this tax?

    And to those businesses, 2% of what?

    ✌️😎

  2. I can only guess it is to equalize insurance costs between in-state insurance companies and those from out-of-state.

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