The State’s Illinois Family Relief Plan begins July 1st.
Governor JB Pritzker says in total, more than $1.8-billion in relief is going out to taxpayers.
“Every Illinoisan will get tax relief on essentials, gas, groceries, and your home. To make back-to-school shopping less expensive, we’ll have a ten-day sales tax holiday for school supplies.”
Effective July 1st, the state’s one percent sales tax on groceries will go away for a year. A two-cent increase in the gas tax set to go into effect on July 1st will be delayed to January 1st of next year.
Pritzker says the plan also permanently expands the state’s earned income tax credit.
Even more tax relief will go into effect next year from a permanent increase in the earned income tax credit and an expansion of the number of households covered by it. That will put an additional $ 100 million a year back into the pockets of working families.
Property tax rebates of up to $300 and income tax rebates ranging from $50 to $100 will start going out to eligible households in September.
In reaction, Republican State Senator Jason Plummer says actions speak louder than words, and instead of trying to help working families, the Governor is only interested in election year gimmicks that they hope distract Illinoisans from what is really killing their pocketbook—Illinois Democrats and their far-left policies. Plummer says the supposed tax savings come after the last three years of the Governor and Democratic legislative leaders trying to raise every tax and fee they could find. He adds the state right now is reaping a windfall of cash from sales taxes due to historical inflation and price spikes, much of which has been driven by policies they support.
