>> I don’t believe the state controls local property taxes. <<
I can’t speak to other states laws, but Washington State does, in fact, control property taxes through legislation on how, when, and how property is valued for the purposes of taxation because the State has to get their cut. It’s usually the largest portion of our property tax obligation, which goes into the State’s General Fund, purportedly to pay for education costs. There is a program for low income/elderly to allow some exemption from paying local levies (like school and hospital bonds), but the State’s share of the tax is rarely (if ever) exempt. I’d be shocked (shocked! I tell you) to find that Illinois doesn’t take at least half of the property tax collected, too, and you don’t do that without laws granting the State, Counties, and Cities to levy and collect taxes.
Illinois gets most its of money through income taxes and a base sales tax. Illinois has the most taxing bodies of any state and they are funded by add ons to property taxes and sales taxes.
>> I don’t believe the state controls local property taxes. <<
I can’t speak to other states laws, but Washington State does, in fact, control property taxes through legislation on how, when, and how property is valued for the purposes of taxation because the State has to get their cut. It’s usually the largest portion of our property tax obligation, which goes into the State’s General Fund, purportedly to pay for education costs. There is a program for low income/elderly to allow some exemption from paying local levies (like school and hospital bonds), but the State’s share of the tax is rarely (if ever) exempt. I’d be shocked (shocked! I tell you) to find that Illinois doesn’t take at least half of the property tax collected, too, and you don’t do that without laws granting the State, Counties, and Cities to levy and collect taxes.
Well, guess you can be shocked, Illinois property taxes do not go to the state nor does the state have any say so...I checked property tax bill and called the County Treasurer office.
Apparently states do differ.