While debating a property tax-related bill Monday afternoon, State Representative Brad Halbrook said that Illinois is the first or second highest taxed state in the nation.   Numbers continue to roll in that people are “voting with their feet” and by that, he meant, people are leaving the state of Illinois.

Senate Bill 3455 amends the Department of Revenue Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. It provides that the Department of Revenue, in consultation with the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, shall conduct a study to evaluate the property tax system in the State. Something that Representative Halbrook says was done 5 years ago.

In his debate on the bill, Halbrook brought up the 2019 task force that was established to do the same thing but property taxes continue to climb.  Halbrook suggested bringing taxpayers off the street, asking them what should be done and the problem could be taken care of the next day.   

SB 3455 passed and moved to Governor JB Pritzker’s desk for approval.