博马/十大网赌靠谱网址平台 Raises Voice on Mayor’s Property Tax Increase Proposal

Background

Mayor Emanuel recently unveiled his proposed 2016 budget at a special meeting of the City Council. 7美元.84 billion budget proposes spending $500 million more than was appropriated in 2015, representing an increase of nearly 7% over the 2015 appropriation.

The 2016 budget proposal includes an unprecedented property tax increase to fund the City's police 和 fire pension obligations. 2016年拟征收的物业税为1元.26 billion, which is $436 million (over a 50% increase) more than was levied in 2015.

解决养老金危机, the Mayor needs the assistance of the legislature 和 the Governor on legislation that provides more time for the City to address the current situation with the police 和 fire pension. If signed into law the City would address the pensions through additional property tax increases as follows:

2015年:3.18亿美元
2016年:1.09亿美元
2017年:5300万美元
2018年6300万美元

The mayor has also pledged to seek legislation to double the homeowner exemption which would protect homeowners from any increase. 博马/十大网赌靠谱网址平台 和 business organizations including the Chicagol和 Chamber of Commerce, 伊利诺斯州商会, 伊利诺伊州零售商人协会, 伊利诺伊州制造商协会 和 National Federation of Independent Businesses are opposed to increasing the exemption which would shift much of the property tax increase to commercial properties 和 residential renters.

成交金额估计为232美元.2016年运营预算不足600万美元, both expense reductions 和 revenue increases are being proposed. The proposed revenue increases include $35 million in building permit reform 和 increases in certain building permit fees, in addition to nearly $126 million in combined fees for residential garbage pickup, 拼车和税费以及电子烟税.

博马/十大网赌靠谱网址平台 is employing every resource available to evaluate the Mayor’s proposals, to ensure that they are as fair to our industry as they can be, 和 will fight against further overburdening commercial taxpayers 和 tenants in whatever form the painful steps toward fiscal responsibility might take. 十大网赌靠谱网址平台包括博马/十大网赌靠谱网址平台的工作人员, 这里和斯普林菲尔德的说客, 税务顾问和研究人员, 公共关系公司. 以下是迄今为止所采取的一些措施的总结:

参与与主要决策者的讨论

博马/十大网赌靠谱网址平台 Executive Vice President Michael Cornicelli 和 Director of Government Affairs Ron Tabaczynski attended a private briefing by Vice Mayor Steven Koch 和 the city’s CFO Carol Brown on the Mayor’s budget 和 tax proposals, along with representatives from the Civic Committee 和 the Chicagol和 Chamber of Commerce.

Cornicelli 和 Tabaczynski also met with the Governor’s senior staff to further educate them about the impact of the proposed property tax increase 和 the dramatic 和 adverse effects of shifting that burden to commercial buildings 和 tenants by increasing the homeowner exemption.

博马/十大网赌靠谱网址平台 Fighting Homestead Exemption Credit Expansion in Springfield

十大网赌靠谱网址平台政府事务小组, 包括罗恩·塔巴钦斯基, recently testified in front of the Illinois House Revenue Committee in opposition of the homestead exemption credit expansion. 尽管目前还没有具体的立法草案, Ron 和 the rest of the team will be tracking this issue closely to commercial properties 和 the the small 和 large businesses they house are treated fairly.

向媒体传递我们的信息

博马/十大网赌靠谱网址平台 has led the charge to educate the media 和 public about the unfair property tax burden commercial properties already bear by paying 2.5 times more than residential properties 和 the additional burden that would be paid once nearly 70% of the Mayor's property tax increase is shifted to commercial commercial tenants. Michael Cornicelli 和 Ron Tabaczynski have done over 24 interviews with the press, 包括电视采访 十大网赌靠谱网址平台今晚 和 美国广播公司第七频道十大网赌靠谱信誉平台, 和 have been quoted extensively, 和 in a favorable business light. 前往我们的 十大网赌靠谱网址平台十大网赌靠谱信誉平台页面 阅读更多.

博马/十大网赌靠谱网址平台 representatives also met with the editorial board of the Chicago Tribune, 它发表了 支持我们在这些问题上立场的社论 最近还会见了《十大网赌靠谱信誉平台》的编辑委员会. Michael Cornicelli也有 发表在《十大网赌靠谱网址平台商业周刊》上的专栏文章.

我们创建了 Infographic to easily explain the impact of the Mayor’s proposed property tax increase on commercial tenants 小型和大型企业遍布整个城市.

与志同道合的商业团体结成联盟

博马/十大网赌靠谱网址平台 has also taken the lead in forming a coalition of like-minded business groups working together on these issues. 该组织包括:十大网赌靠谱网址平台商会, 伊利诺斯州商会, 伊利诺伊州零售商人协会, 伊利诺伊州制造商协会, 商业俱乐部公民委员会, 十大网赌靠谱网址平台公寓协会, 伊利诺斯州餐饮协会, 和其他人. 这个名单还在增加.

博马/十大网赌靠谱网址平台 will continue to research the economic impact of the proposed tax hikes 和 the proposed expansion of the homeowner exemption, including the effect of the shift in burden from residential to commercial taxpayers.

Stay tuned for additional information on this very important issue. Please direct any questions or comments to Ron Tabaczynski, Director of Government Affairs, at rtabaczynski@bomachicago or (312) 870-9611.