Johnson’s $300M property tax increase will be “significantly decreased,” top mayoral aide says – Chicago Sun-Times

Ideas range from increasing the $9.50-a-month garbage collection fee by varying levels, to raising taxes on items including cigarettes, parking, bottled water, gasoline and liquor, to raising the amusement tax from 9 percent to 14 percent — but only on streaming services. One of the biggest-ticket items — bringing in nearly $100 million — involves raising the personal property lease tax on cloud computing from 9 percent to 10.25 percent. Yet another memo outlined various “scenarios” for using some or all of the $280 million in unallocated federal pandemic relief funds to mitigate the need for a property tax increase.