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Committee recommends municipal grocery tax to replace state collection; trustees split 4–2
Summary
Faced with a $4–4.5 million projected revenue hit after the state discontinued its grocery tax distribution, the Committee recommended adopting a municipal grocery retailer's occupation and service occupation tax to maintain revenue; the vote passed 4–2.
Orland Park’s Committee of the Whole voted to recommend that the Village Board adopt an ordinance creating a municipal grocery retailer's occupation tax and a municipal grocery service occupation tax to replace revenue the state recently stopped remitting to municipalities.
Staff said the state’s change will cause an estimated $4 million to $4.5 million annual gap in village revenue; the village would collect a local tax closely modeled on the prior state collection to preserve existing municipal funds. Proponents argued the move maintains…
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