EVENTS
Kalendar predstojećih balkanskih dešavanja u Čikagu, Njujorku, Majamiju i ostalim američkim gradovima. Upcoming Chicago events in Serbian and Balkan community.
DODAJ DEŠAVANJE ILI DOGAĐAJ
Srpska Televizija nije odgovorna za promene datuma i mesta zakazanih događaja.
Old Holy Resurrection Serbian Orthodox Church on Palmer Sq.
SERBIAN NEW YEAR
January 13, 2018
Dinner and Program starts at 7 PM
Serbian Meze, Roasted Pork and Lamb. Jasna Kocijasevic & Former Zlatni Prsti Band.
For reservations call Nikola Iljenkarevic at (312) 846-0282 or Mirko Milisav at (773) 255-3776.
ADMISSION FEE IS 50$. FOR CHILDREN UNDER 10 FREE!
PORODIČNI RESTORAN SA BALKANSKOM KUHIJOM
Probajte specijalitete i kuvana jela u restoranu Mirage koji se nalazi na adresi 9845 Lawrence Ave u Šiler Parku.
Restoran Mirage je pravo mesto za nedeljni ručak i druženje sa prijateljima i porodicom.
Property Tax Bills Due August 1
Pappas: $24.6 million in Cook County property tax refunds going to 25,000 homeowners whose bills show no balance due
Maria Pappas
Nearly 25,000 homeowners are receiving a Second Installment tax bill that shows a zero balance due on August 1 and are set to receive $24.6 million in refunds, Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas said today.
“Nearly 90 percent of the refunds will be issued without an application,” Pappas said. “To see if you are receiving a refund, visit cookcountytreasurer.com and select the purple box labeled ‘Your Property Overview.’ Just put in your address.”
Most of the refunds go to homeowners receiving property tax exemptions, which are always applied to the Second Installment tax bill. The exemptions include: Homeowner’s, Senior Citizen or Senior Assessment Freeze, Disabled Persons and Disabled Veterans.
Here is the refund schedule:
- 10,100 homeowners who earlier this year paid by check or online will receive a credit to their bank or credit card accounts starting July 1 through July 26, 2019.
- 11,300 homeowners who paid through a bank/mortgage escrow account will be mailed a refund check by August 23, 2019.
- In addition, 3,400 homeowners whose taxes were paid in cash will be mailed a refund application by July 26, 2019, to ensure the proper party receives the refund.
Printed bills, with a due date of August 1, will be mailed today, Monday, July 1.
Information: Maria Pappas (312) 603-6202
Pappas: Auction of delinquent Cook County
property taxes postponed indefinitely
A Cook County Circuit Court Judge has postponed the Annual Tax Sale of delinquent
properties scheduled to begin May 8, 2020, because of the spread of the new
coronavirus, Treasurer Maria Pappas said today.
In an emergency motion, Pappas asked for the delay to protect the health and safety of
Cook County residents in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. The judge granted the
motion, postponing the Tax Sale until the court orders the sale to proceed.
“Holding the Tax Sale under these circumstances would be unfair to tens of thousands
of homeowners who are living paycheck-to-paycheck and face this pandemic” Pappas
said.
There are more than 52,000 properties whose delinquent taxes would be sold to
investors if the Tax Sale were held, Pappas said. Of those properties:
More than 30,000 are homes
More than 23,000 owe less than $1,000
About 2,000 are owned by senior citizens
Postponing the Tax Sale would delay payment of an estimated $48 million in property
taxes that would have been collected during the sale. That’s a fraction of the $14 billion
the Cook County Treasurer’s Office collects each year.
The Treasurer’s Office is required to put delinquent taxes up for auction, the first step in
a legal process that can end with the loss of property if the taxes are not repaid. When it
takes place, the Tax Sale will be for homes, businesses and land with unpaid bills for
Tax Year 2018 (originally due in 2019).
OFFICE OF THE COOK COUNTY TREASURER
Maria Pappas
First Installment due March 2; late fees waived through May 3
Pappas: Get an early look at next year’s property taxes;
Download your bill at cookcountytreasurer.com.
Next year’s First Installment Cook County property tax bills are available at
cookcountytreasurer.com so that property owners can make payments before the end of
this year or plan their finances for 2021, Treasurer Maria Pappas said today.
The First Installment Tax Year 2020, which is 55 percent of the previous year’s total tax,
is due March 2, 2021. However, the Cook County Board last week waived late charges
through May 3, 2021.
“People need more time to pay. That’s the bottom line,” Pappas said. “By posting the bills
to my website now, property owners can start thinking about how to pay their bills for
2021, which is going to be a hard year for many, many people.”
You can download your tax bill or make a payment by visiting cookcountytreasurer.com
and following these steps:
• Select the blue box labeled “Pay Online for Free”
• Enter your address or 14-digit Property Index Number (PIN)
• There is no fee if you pay from your bank account
The Treasurer’s Office accepts partial payments. However, all First Installment Tax Year
2020 taxes must be paid by May 3, 2021, to avoid a late charge of 1.5 percent per month
mandated by Illinois law.
You can also use cookcountytreasurer.com to:
• Search $76 million in available refunds
• Check if you are missing out on $46 million in property tax exemptions, which lower
your tax bill
• Read the Pappas Study, a 20-year history of Cook County property taxes
Cook County Treasurer’s Office – 2/25/2021
Amendment to the Debt Disclosure Ordinance
The Cook County Board of Commissioners has enacted an ordinance that would increase disclosure in an area where it is long overdue — Tax Increment Financing districts, Treasurer Maria Pappas said today.
citizens struggling to pay Cook County
property taxes
The Board approved an amendment to the Debt Disclosure Ordinance, which allows the Treasurer’s Office to gather vital financial data for the county’s 547 primary taxing districts and publish it on cookcountytreasurer.com. The amendment would give taxpayers the opportunity to examine how TIF dollars have been spent and to whom. This information also would be posted to cookcountytreasurer.com for taxpayers to view and download. Pappas suggested the idea to the board and helped draft the amendment.
“The County Board took ground-breaking action regarding transparency when it passed the Debt Disclosure Ordinance in 2009 at my request,” Pappas said. “I am grateful to the Board for doing the same with TIFs.”
Commissioners John P. Daley (11th) and Larry Suffredin (13th) were lead sponsors of the amendment, which had 13 cosponsors: Alma E. Anaya (7th), Luis Arroyo Jr. (8th), Dennis Deer (2nd), Bridget Degnen (12th), Bridget Gainer (10th), Brandon Johnson (1st), Bill Lowry (3rd), Donna Miller (6th), Stanley Moore (4th), Sean M. Morrison (17th), Kevin B. Morrison (15th), Peter N. Silvestri (9th), Deborah Sims (5th).
Two commissioners voted no: Frank J. Aguilar (16th) and Scott R. Britton (14th).
In Cook County, 444 TIF Districts across 96 municipalities accounted for more than $1.3 billion in property tax revenue last year — or 8.4% of the entire $15.6 billion billed.
Analiza računa za porez na imovinu okruga Kuk od 1,8 miliona za 2022. pokazuje da su školski okrugi uglavnom odgovorni za velike poreske račune koji dospevaju 1. decembra, kaže blagajnik Marija Papas.
Srednji račun za boravišnu taksu u severnim i severozapadnim predgrađima povećan je za 15,7%, što je najveći procenat povećanja u najmanje 30 godina, pokazala je analiza. Ovi veći poreski računi su rezultat povećanih nameta ¬¬— iznosa novca koji traže poreski okrugi — i prebacivanja poreskog tereta na vlasnike kuća sa preduzeća kao rezultat ponovnih procena u severnim predgrađima.
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Pappas: School districts hiked property taxes on Cook County homes, businesses
An analysis of Cook County’s 1.8 million property tax bills for 2022 shows that school districts are chiefly responsible for hefty tax bills that are due Dec. 1, according to Treasurer Maria Pappas.
The median residential tax bill in the north and northwest suburbs increased 15.7%, the largest percentage increase in at least 30 years, the analysis found. These higher tax bills are the result of increased levies — the amount of money sought by taxing districts — and a shift of the tax burden onto homeowners from businesses as a result of reassessments in the northern suburbs.
Treasurer’s Office researchers Hal Dardick and Todd Lighty led the analysis. Pappas hired the former Chicago Tribune investigative journalists to head up her office’s think tank. The analysis is the latest addition to the Pappas Studies, a series of examinations of the complex property tax system available at cookcountytreasurer.com.
Key findings of the analysis show:
- Of 940 taxing agencies in the county, 676 — or 71.9% — increased taxes.
- The amount of taxes billed to property owners countywide rose more than $909 million from $16.7 billion to $17.6 billion, a 5.4% increase over 2021. Homeowners are shouldering $599.1 million, or two-thirds of the increase, while commercial properties are picking up one-third and owe an additional $314.4 million.
- In newly reassessed north and northwest suburbs, taxes rose $331 million — with a $387 million, or 12.9%, increase on residences and a $56 million, or 2.7%, decrease on commercial properties.
- In the south and southwest suburbs, taxes rose $173 million from $3.88 billion to $4.06 billion. Residential taxes increased $98 million, or 4.1%, from $2.4 billion to $2.5 billion, while taxes on commercial properties increased $75 million, or 5.1%, from $1.48 billion to $1.56 billion.
Cook County is divided into three areas for reassessments: the city of Chicago, north suburbs and south suburbs. The county assessor calculates new values for properties in each region once every three years, a process known as triennial reassessments.
Property values are one factor in the complex property tax system. Local units of government set tax levies that determine how much money they need to operate. The assessed values of properties and amounts of levies determine the tax rates, which vary widely among communities.
State law allows school districts to hike taxes by the prior year’s increase in the consumer price index, or 5%, whichever is less. Because the CPI increased by 7% in 2021, school districts were allowed a 5% increase. But the overall percentage increase was higher, partly due to a new provision called recapture.
Recapture, which took effect in the 2021 tax year due to a change in state law, allows schools and other taxing bodies to recover money that was refunded to property owners whose assessments were lowered by the Illinois Property Tax Appeal Board, state courts or county offices.
Recapture accounted for $203.7 million countywide for 2022, a $72.7 million increase from last year.
Significant increases in the amount of money the city of Chicago and Chicago Public Schools said they needed to operate, coupled with the recapture provision and higher tax increment financing district bills, boosted the overall property tax burden in Chicago by $410 million from $7.65 billion to $8.1 billion. That broke down as a $296 million, or 7.8%, increase on commercial properties and a $115 million, or 3%, increase on residential properties.
Chicago Public Schools recaptured $50.8 million for the 2022 tax year. As a home rule municipality, the city of Chicago is unable to recapture taxes, as the state law applies only to non-home rule communities.
The Treasurer’s analysis revealed that throughout Cook County in 2022, the amount owed to tax increment financing districts increased $124.6 million from $1.43 billion to $1.56 billion. TIF district increases account for about 13.7% of the overall rise in what property owners across the county owe.
Second Installment 2022 tax bills are set to be mailed Nov. 1 and are due Dec. 1. Property owners who don’t wait to wait for their bills to arrive in the mail can pay their taxes online now at cookcountytreasurer.com. Partial payments are accepted.
https://cookcountytreasurer.com/pdfs/taxbillanalysisandstatistics/taxyear2022analysis.pdf