Illinois Nets Almost $6 Billion More In Taxes In 2012
From the Chicago Daily Herald
Illinois collected nearly $6 billion more in taxes and fees in 2012 than in the year before.
That's the greatest increase of any state in the nation, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's annual State Government Tax Collections report released a few days ago.
Rising from $30.6 billion in 2011 to $36.4 billion in 2012, Illinois' state tax increase largely comes on the backs of workers who saw individual income taxes climb by nearly $4.5 billion, thanks to the first full year of a 2-percentage-point income tax hike.
"That's one week's pay that we're losing," said state Sen. Matt Murphy, a Palatine Republican who voted against the income tax hike in January 2011. "You used to get a little relief in Illinois on income tax from high property and sales taxes, but now taxpayers have no oasis, no respite. They're getting hit from all angles."
The state's individual income tax rate had been 3 percent since 1990. It is now 5 percent, but is set to drop to 3.75 percent at the start of 2015 unless the legislature acts to extend the higher rate before then.
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From the Chicago Daily Herald
Illinois collected nearly $6 billion more in taxes and fees in 2012 than in the year before.
That's the greatest increase of any state in the nation, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's annual State Government Tax Collections report released a few days ago.
Rising from $30.6 billion in 2011 to $36.4 billion in 2012, Illinois' state tax increase largely comes on the backs of workers who saw individual income taxes climb by nearly $4.5 billion, thanks to the first full year of a 2-percentage-point income tax hike.
"That's one week's pay that we're losing," said state Sen. Matt Murphy, a Palatine Republican who voted against the income tax hike in January 2011. "You used to get a little relief in Illinois on income tax from high property and sales taxes, but now taxpayers have no oasis, no respite. They're getting hit from all angles."
The state's individual income tax rate had been 3 percent since 1990. It is now 5 percent, but is set to drop to 3.75 percent at the start of 2015 unless the legislature acts to extend the higher rate before then.
Read more in our daily News Update...