Where are the Tax Bills?
This from back in July and guess what? Nothing has come out since then either.
Not that we're looking forward to the expected massive increases, but it would be nice to see what we're going to have to come up with so we can start the appeals process and then start campaigning against these thieves:
The second installments of Cook County property tax bills are theoretically due on Thursday, Aug. 1.
But thanks to technology problems, the bills haven't even been mailed out yet.
What we know:
The question FOX 32 sought to answer was when would those Cook County tax bills be ready to go?
The consensus was, thanks to those technical problems, "we just don't know."
Cook County public officials blame a 10-year-old contract with a Texas-based company called Tyler Technologies for the delay. The contract was inked by the county in 2015 and was supposed to modernize the property tax billing system within three to five years.
"technical problems"? But DuPage County (which uses the same company) got their bills out on time.
So the problem is probably along the lines of they are figuring out how hard they're going to have to manipulate the tax multiplier. Then they have to take into account favors from the assessor, the clerk, the treasurer and the county board, not to mention the CPS usual maxing out of their share. Then they have to figure out how much everyone else has to make up shortfalls for things like the head of the CTU living in Indiana, downtown discount deals for Madigan's and Burke's law firm clients, and the usual "exemptions" for aldercreatures who misrepresent the building they're living in.
After all that, maybe you'll get a tax bill that only goes up 20%.
Labels: money questions
posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
47 Comments:
"Cook County public officials blame a 10-year-old contract with a Texas-based company called Tyler Technologies for the delay. The contract was inked by the county in 2015 and was supposed to modernize the property tax billing system within three to five years."
Perhaps the County failed to pay the vendor.
What happens when DEI leadership takes over. Like African countries that go through cycles of famine, then stealing aid money, then more incompetence. Then more DEI, then famine. Rinse and repeat.
Maria Pappas is 76 years old. Maybe Yia-yia should retire.
The biggest scam they pulled on us is the fact we pay 55% of the property tax in February. When the sevond installment is calculated obviously that's when all the increases take place and since that installment is only 45%, the increases make the bill equal to the first installment. There waa a method to their madness, the sheep won't complain and notice when property taxes go up in August.
The crowning achievement of Toni Preckwinkles term of leadership of Cook County.
Way to go democrats!
Mucking up the basics of financially managing revenues!
No one can do it better than a Democrat.
Can JB or BJ out do Toni?
The biggest idiots brought to you by the Democrat party!
It clearly seems like it’s time to move.
I thought I would die here in peace, no pun intended. You really can’t fix stupid
I was just notified via mail that my mortgage company paid my second half taxes at the end of last month.
I guess they have a direct pipeline to the county
Really you just figured this out. Why anybody stays after they retire is beyond comprehension. Most do stay though kind of funny.
Same shit happened last year...did they not learn from their faults to fix it? A year later and still the same excuse??? Fuckin County & City sucks.
Two issues here:
1) small suburbs with tight budgets will now have to borrow money that will add to their future tax bill on residence;
2) the only winner here will be the banks that hold escrow money and they can keep it then with interest.
The three D's of the Democrats...DEFLECT, DENY, DESTROY.
We in Cook County pay the most in property taxes in the WHOLE fucking country. I guess its our privilege to live in such a beautiful state/sarc
I started work on my house about four years prior to my retirement date. Sold it and moved to Texas one year later with no regrets. Someone else here posted that most retirees stay in Chicago. This is true. Most don't leave, happy to stay to have an excuse to bitch. If you're going to go, plan ahead. Don't let anyone bullshit you with "its the same thing everywhere "..Its not. Good luck and good health to you. Get going while the going is good.
Incompetence at its finest.
DuPage and Will County taxes show up like clock work every single year without fail.
As soon as they figure out how much the schools need, the tax bills will be on the way...after all, "It's all for the children"...and "Teachers are our children's future, we should pay them more"...right?
They shoved that ideology down our throats for years, today they are just empty words.
Exactly. All these "problems" the city, county and state are having are simple to fix if there were competent people running the show. When you elect morons, they make bad decisions and do dumb things. That should not surprise anyone.
with the huge decline in commercial assessed valuations, the tax burden shifts to the homeowners. Same size pie, just a matter of who gets poked the most.
I have no doubt this delay is about figuring how to screw homeowners without some sort of push-back. I wouldn't worry about it if I were them. The people in cook county have no fight about anything. Fully neutered and completely harmless.
“technical problems”
Can’t figure out a way yet to screw the taxpayers without causing a storming of the Bastille.
yeah but who can dress better than her :)
Expected just in time for Christmas 🎄 😀 or whatever new holiday they're trying to rename or make
Part of the problem is (once again) the Assessor's office, which is in the middle of a computer and systems upgrade. Assessor's site said it could not the Certificates of Error for tax reductions by BOR and PTAB until recently, so the data doesn't get to the Treasurer's Office to calculate bills.
The socialist democrat solution to every budget problem is to raise taxes. Every. Single. Time.
Why is Cook County IL contracting with a Texas company?
Give me the bills, I can do that job with pencil & paper.
Yes I'm an old fart who learned life basics back when school
actually taught
Hello Kwami. Do you smell something Stinky here? Maybe it’s time for an investigation.
Probably all of the DEI hires running things.
The bank that did my mortgage missed an escrow property tax payment the first year. I switched to paying it directly.
nailed it, DEI. mayor couldn't manage his family budget, yet the educated voters elected this crap head as mayor. why does BJ 100 bodyguards in a safe city ?
What was your % increase?
You will get your tax bill AFTER the nid terms. Can't have no lasting memories.
Suckers.
Sounds like your stuck on stupidity saying you planned to die in peace here.
If you choose to live in Chicago you made the choice. So stop complaining about where you live. Embrace it.
Unlike private business, the gubmint can't just find a better contractor in the phone book. Gotta check with their clout first and all the pols collecting the graft. At a dept I worked at we couldn't get tires for a year after a mayoral change . Tires ! So if a backhoe was on overtime like almost every day and it had a leaky tire you would assign a compressor truck to sit there all night on double time to keep his tire aired up. Fuck it it's only money .
Not the same size pie, it's smaller. Of which the hogs require pie to be much larger to make their piece also larger, without emptying the pie pan. Which is us.
They killed the golden goose and had roasted goose one time, then, no more golden eggs.
They milked the cow relentlessly, neglected to feed cow and cow croaked. Thus, lean meat for a short bit and, then, no more milk. Or cheese. Or yogurt. Or butter. Or, gasp, ice creams.
The little red hen? Well, they roasted her, when she said no bread for those who did not help. Then, no more bread.
Drive them into the deep waters and let the fishes feast to restore a semblence of balance.
Is not the total property tax bill technically due, with added "late"penalties, by the just before the moment of the striking/stroking of the new years' first second?
You mean they notified you that your escrow portion of your mortgage payment will be increasing noticably soon?
Your faults are their features.
Lisa Madigan was more likely to find a crime...and she found none!
Isn't it funny how they fuck everything up and there's no money for this and that but they had no issues and weren't short money when it came to handing out money to illegals and that wasn't delayed.
Sounds like you need a new mortgage company.
You get your tax bill when the Democrats say so. Now shut up and go sit in the corner.
No rush, hope they don’t send it out for 10 years. Ha Ha ha
Gov Lardass here...MMMMmmmmmm....pie!
Sorry. Wrong. Cook County is no where near the highest. Look at Kane, Lake, Dupage. Will make your eyes water.
100% true
In the mail today
county assessments will out just as soon as they figure out which house the democRAT politician's want to declare as their primary residence (wink-wink)
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