Insurance director, 53-year-old to 20 different local government agencies to draft the property tax law and about $ 7,000 in total compensation in 2014 the village of Wauconda and Wauconda Park District, and the city of Wauconda, Wauconda forest conservation and public spaces included in the library, and Fire Protection Wauconda.
Then there's Wauconda roads and bridges, and roads and bridges, Wauconda should not be confused with gravel, or gravel with Wauconda progress through the unit - which is imposed on all three of his individual tax, and the village is the other homeowners.
Those three entities come under the supervision of the Wauconda area. Officials have struggled to explain all of this is exactly what, and why is it necessary to impose on the three separate organizations. Commissioner Wauconda, Joe Highway in the town of Munson said: "They're all for the maintenance of the road." So why three? "I do not know why," Monson said. "I've always been that way."
Jachec, and its projects are looking at property tax law, and upset. "It's ridiculous," he said.
A lot has been said about the Illinois budget crisis facing - the state government sank $ 37 billion of debt, and all that is between 50 countries and the United States at the lowest credit score and bad-funded pension system, and the picture may be more disturbing.
The average ticket's six stages, and many other places Wauconda and pays more taxes. 55 miles north of Chicago, Ingleside, in tribute to Dan Koivisto 18 local agencies. "I was just $ 271 a month salary from the school district alone," he said. He said, "I do not have children.", Added
Duplication services
Illinois, with a population of more than twice - - by far the largest number of states in the state of Texas in the United States by the end of 6026 with the power to collect taxes, home to almost 8,500 local government units, local government units, the second highest in 5150. According to the US Census Bureau, only in 1650, Illinois, Florida, which is greater than 54% of the population.
This fund property tax, most of which rely on a lot of these authorities to impose taxes, to have its own budget problems. The pension fund for police officers and firefighters, which is badly underfunded.
Unusual, such as fire and school districts in remote areas of the country, generally ranging from Illinois said: buried just killing mosquitoes that maintain or raise taxes for street lighting, for example, in the area.
Reuters analysis of property tax data for a large number of local government agencies, and the lack of oversight of their operations, taxpayers' money is spent inefficient duplication of services or the head shows that might be. It leads to the spread of pension funds to serve different categories of employees. There are also some signs that the widespread nepotism.
Information on the size of the geographical boundaries of the local government authority, there is no central repository. Rich Carter said, so the local government is provided by the annual audit of the financial report of the State Comptroller's Office, said a spokesman for the audit.
Revenue collected by the Department of State does not keep information on property taxes, but do not follow the tax on personal property. It is virtually impossible to land parcels attributed overlap method to determine how many circles it, or how much to tax residents in a particular area of ??the survey respondents do not differentiate. Because of this gap, and money, it is difficult to assess the multiple layers of a tax increase.
On average, real estate and tax nonpartisan Tax Foundation, the Illinois, New Jersey and New Hampshire, the only residential property prices, the third highest in the United States at 1.92 per cent. (New Hampshire, Illinois and New Jersey, as opposed to not have a state income tax or state sales tax).
Dan Koivisto Ingleside, Illinois, home of one of her poses with a copy of its 2013 property tax bill ...
Critics in both high taxes and state administrative structures and it takes a lot of losses to homeowners, and discourage people from coming to the state or that there is. Illinois according to US Census data, the second in New York, its history, the biggest in the state last year, 95,000 people saw a net migration. If it does, that migration may be due to the high taxes, how much is unclear.
Many cities and towns in Illinois, high taxes, especially on high pension costs to keep pace with rising costs, and cut some services are still not enough. For example, the state capital, Springfield, police officers and fire pension costs in the year, according to budget director Bill McCarty, will consume approximately 90 percent of property tax revenues. The Springfield, off 11% of its police force, shut down the library, and the other to the pension fund is tapped, McCarty added since 2008.
Sam Yingling, 2012, which was the state of North Chicago Avon town supervisors, representatives, local government has become a vocal critic of multiple layers.
He left the city three years ago, and it's $ 120,000 salary and benefits of the annual public expenditure in the supervisor's office when Yingling said. He's not only commissioned a legal duty to help out the poor management claimed that there was only $ 10,000. Lisa Roche, supervisor of the town of Avon, the office of public assistance in emergency situations and provided $ 50,000 $ 70,000 says, controversial figure care.
Yingling criticism in the way the program. The budget for the current fiscal year, for the maintenance of roads and bridges it has allocated more than $ 1.4 million. Pop Cola, Avon highway, city commissioners, the city maintained roads a little less than 13 miles says...
Borrowing Restrictions
The Constitution of the State and in 1970 a large number of local government borrowing, and that is to try to limit the amount of expenditure control, which was in force until 1870 Illinois Constitution, is abandoned.
When creating a new library or to circumvent the restrictions on borrowing, and to collect more money is needed to build new power by the government. Today, for example, more than 800 drainage area, has mostly adae.
The state of Illinois for more than 20 years, partly because of a succession of rulers of the Byzantine regulation, the government is to reduce the number of units, but little has improved. In 1432, one of the solutions in the Illinois towns, for example, each town in the province of state law stipulates that the voters would vote for the approval of three-quarters.
State commission to address the problem of local government in the newly established Republican governor Bruce Rauner team, and the team soon discovered that continue to be imposed if the unit proliferate. Increased by 148 between 1998 and 2015, the net number of local government units, the governor's office said last month.
"Maybe you can get away with as much as half," economic development project, which is funded by the Illinois Finance Authority, recently retired Chief Bill Brandt, said. "But it sounds a lot easier than hitting the local government. This is the law, and the local government require a lot of legislators from both sides of the aisle."
And it is not only a source of concern for a number of authorities. About one-sixth of Illinois - 657 4000 US pension plan out of.
It is fully funded by the local government, with 400,000 members, the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund, local authorities are determined to keep the law in the state of Illinois. They are, from $ 543 million in 2005, $ 923 million in 2014 contributions.
However, there is no need for local pension funds. The result: a lot of these funds throughout the state to suffer from a lack of funding is deplorable, and it's something they need to meet their obligations is lower than 20 percent.
"I go up and pension costs, pension contributions until they are up and going, and property taxes are the single largest source of income to pay for it," Brandt said.
Costly duplication of services and to provide a striking example of the cities alone.
Cook County, Illinois, with Chicago at its borders in the Americas and the second largest market in the state's largest district, is. There, at the county level and is the property tax assessment and collection. But more importantly, Cook County, 30 towns, and the salaries and property tax advisors. Lewis Muszynski, and they do not collect property taxes in determining the Cook County Assessor's office, an assistant said that.
"They do not work," Muszynski said. "The local people understand their bills, and appeal to them to help."
Northfield Township Road around the property taxes of approximately $ 1.4 million raised last year - it is the seven parts of the city, though. The city maintains the road, but the road 29 miles of Northfield Township has its own network, as well as the drainage system that provides maintenance services to a government. Wali plow trucks and other equipment in Illinois has six data base of the pension, and the seven full-time workforce, Kehr, annually more than $ 110,000 earns the foreman, said the city's outskirts.
"If we provide you with the city and provide the best service for local residents," Kehr said.
Local government, the strengthening of West Chicago, in rare cases, officials passed the law in 2012 and to the ability to reduce their waste, DuPage County conducted. Since then, the former, and a similar cut staff and facilities to reduce health and fire protection zones have been canceled. Taxpayers and tax officials estimated $ 100 million in savings over 20 years.
Employing relatives
The multiplicity of local government also provides an opportunity for patronage. Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund database, and the retirement system for local government workers, looking at the children of parents employed by Reuters, husband, wife, and mother of girls, which employs about a dozen cases this assignment.
South-western Illinois town of Collinsville, and it operates the highway commissioner, Larry Trucano and Illinois, according to the data base of the municipal pension fund as a factor in his son James and pension and health benefits in addition to $ 71.000 per year, making ,. Collinsville official James and his father was working all the time to make sure. Larry Trucano four phone calls went unanswered.
Venice, Andrew economy, in addition to the $ 46,300 earns retired supervisor in the city - he runs a car repair and service the local drag - as an administrator, appointed his wife, Debra economy. In addition to pension and earn around $ 62,000.
Andrew and his wife retired in 2003 and 2008. The officer said the economy and jobs, and work efficiently.
The police chief of the village hotel, a convention center and Bradley A. Stevens eight relatives and employees of municipalities with a population of 4,000 at Chicago O'Hare Airport, Rosemont to serve.
"Rosemont hire people they do not give an apology," said Gary Mack, spokesman for the village. "The mayor much higher level than the others, he holds any employees who happen to be related to."