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Find the Tax Rate For Every Taxing Body in Palos

Are you wondering how much area school districts, municipalities and libraries are taxing their residents? Then you need to read this list.

 

By now all homeowners in Cook County should have received their property tax bills. 

The following information is provided by the Cook County Clerk's Office and compares the year over year taxing rates of all local bodies. Tax rates are calculated by taking the amount of money levied by each district and the value of all taxable property within that district. 

Simple enough, right? Well here is where things get a bit trickier. From the County Clerk:

Each Cook County taxing body with a statutory ceiling has its levy adjusted to the maximum amount based on the statutory ceiling for the district and the previous year’s total equalized assessed value (EAV) of property plus the value of any new construction, or the current year EAV―whichever is less.

This calculation can restrict the agency from receiving the full amount of its levy. . . In accordance with the tax cap requirements of the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law, the revenue that agencies may collect is further limited, in most cases, to a 1.5 percent increase over the prior year’s extension. Next year, tax revenues will be limited to 3.0 percent more than the amount extended this year based on the Consumer Price Index released in January, 2012. 

In essence, taxing bodies often levy more than they are able to collect in order to account for changes in equalized assessed valuation or the consumer price index.

The portion of each body's budget that comes from property taxes varies as well. School district rely almost solely on property tax revenues, while cities and villages count it as only a portion of their revenue.

Taxing District 2011 2010     % Change      
County 0.462 0.423 9.22%
Forest Preserve District 0.058 0.051 13.73%
Consolidated Elections 0.025 -- ---
Palos Township 0.050 0.040 25.00%
County General Assistance 0.005 0.004 25.00%
County Roads and Bridges 0.042 0.033 27.27%
City of Palos Heights 0.953 0.818 16.50%
City of Palos Heights Library Fund 0.377 0.342 10.23%
City of Palos Hills 0.515 0.414 24.40%
Village of Palos Park 0.498 0.391 27.37%
Village of Palos Park Library Fund 0.161 0.126 27.78%
Village of Worth 1.720 1.385 24.19%
School District #117 4.406 3.602 22.32%
School District #118 2.457 2.011 22.18%
Consolidated High School District #230 2.180 1.812 20.31%
Community College District #524 0.311 0.256 21.48%
Green Hills Public Library District 0.358 0.288 24.31%
North Palos Fire Protection District 0.869 0.701 23.97%
Palos Fire Protection District 0.709 0.557 27.29%
Palos Heights Fire Protection District 0.727 0.583 24.70%
Metropolitan Water Reclamation District 0.320 0.274 16.79%
South Palos Township Sanitary District 0.331 0.253 30.83%
Worth Township 0.060 0.050 20.00%
South Cook County Mosquito Abatement District 0.012 0.010 20.00%
School District #128 2.460 1.967 25.06%
Community High School District #218 3.037 2.482 22.36%

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Related Topics: Cook County, District 117, District 118, District 128, District 230, and Property Tax

daniel polk

7:24 pm on Monday, July 16, 2012

Hey dan- while the thought of these tax districts "tazing" us is both terrifying and amusing- doubt it's actually happening...(tag above the headline)

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Dan Lambert

10:24 pm on Thursday, July 19, 2012

Ha! Thanks, I fixed it. I bet that story would bring in quite a few readers.

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