Mayor: Village Won't Collect Fines From State Income Tax Refunds
Illinois officials approached Mayor Jim Holland about joining a state program that would let the village collect unpaid fines from residents's state income tax returns. Find out why Holland isn't keen on the idea.
Although it's a tempting opportunity that has attracted Chicago officials, Frankfort won't collect fines owed to the village by taking it out of residents's state income tax refunds, said Mayor Jim Holland last week at the village's Departmental Operations Committee meeting. Recently, a representative of the Illinois Office of the Comptroller contacted Holland to see if the village wanted to take part in a program that would deduct local fines issued to Illinois residents from their state tax returns, the mayor said. Village officials would enter the names of people with outstanding fines into a state-run website, which would then take the money from state residents's refunds, minus a processing fee of up to $15. Last week, the Chicago …
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Pat
9:08 am on Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Ethics in action. Also, why should we pay the state to collect when we are perfectly capable of doing it ourselves. The governments, state and federal, are too involved in our lives as it is. more ›