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Committee deadlocks on motion to send grocery-tax removal to board after split votes
Summary
Trustees debated whether to recommend eliminating the locally enacted grocery tax (suspended by the governor) and whether to place the question on the Board agenda. A motion to send a recommendation to the Board failed on a tied committee vote.
Committee members debated whether the Village should act to reinstate or to eliminate a local grocery-sales tax that state law made optional after recent changes to state tax policy. Staff briefed the committee on the policy background: the governor had suspended a previous arrangement and municipal bodies were being given the option to reinstate a local grocery tax; the Illinois Municipal League (IML) and other organizations had developed guidance on reinstatement.
Staff presented estimated household impacts and municipal revenue: per packet…
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