Illinois comes to their senses (a little)

By: Diane Benjamin DON’T buy a vehicle now if your trade-in is worth more than $10,000. Update to this 2019 story: https://blnnews.com/2019/07/19/new-illinois-vehicle-tax-is-class-warfare/ As of January 1, 2020 most vehicles traded in worth more than $10,000 didn’t get to use the entire trade value to reduces sales tax on the purchased vehicle. On January 1, 2022 […]

More Atlanta needs to know before voting

By:  Diane Benjamin Did you know… The Library Trustees have stated numerous times they have never done anything wrong. The IL Dept of Revenue would disagree. While under the management of the Library Trustees, the IDOR found that Palm’s Grill filed multiple understated sales tax reports. What does that mean? The Palm’s Grill was caught […]

Quinn OVERPAID local gov – oops

By:  Diane Benjamin Unfortunately, just because the Illinois Department of Revenue overpaid local governments and schools $168,000,000, they don’t get to keep it.  THIS HAPPENED UNDER GOV. QUINN! See the complete list here:  http://tax.illinois.gov/#&panel1-5  (Right side-PPRT Estimate of Misallocation) See a story with more details here:  http://kwqc.com/2016/04/19/illinois-overpaid-local-governments-168-million/ This is the McLean County list: McLean MCLEAN […]