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.
Cal, what is the rationale for this tax?
And to those businesses, 2% of what?
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I can only guess it is to equalize insurance costs between in-state insurance companies and those from out-of-state.