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2019-04-26 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Feds investigating IL Gov. JB Pritzker, his wife and his brother-in-law for a big property tax break they got by removing the toilets from a Gold Coast mansion

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Posted by Fred 2019-04-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 What do the Feds have to do with property taxes? If tax assessments are based on number of toilets then removing some would lower the assessment, and the taxes.

Posted by Glenmore 2019-04-26 01:48|| 2019-04-26 01:48|| Front Page Top

#2 ...Glen,

We're talking about Chicago here - probably some esoteric tax law that says if there's no toilets it's a warehouse or something.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2019-04-26 04:31|| 2019-04-26 04:31|| Front Page Top

#3 So where do they poop, at the neighbor's place?

Posted by jpal 2019-04-26 10:31|| 2019-04-26 10:31|| Front Page Top

#4 The number of toilets has a lot to do with property valuation and the determination of how many bedrooms (people) the house can contain.

Posted by AlanC 2019-04-26 12:11|| 2019-04-26 12:11|| Front Page Top

#5 The number of toilets has a lot to do with

Prorated water usage tax and connection fee, sewage usage tax and connection fee also refuse collection tax and street parking fee.

If the toilets were added during a prior renovation, their removal may allow for re-entry into the National Register of Historical Places, which has tough guidelines about structural changes but also provides matching Federal funds.

Posted by Skidmark 2019-04-26 12:30|| 2019-04-26 12:30|| Front Page Top

#6 Wow there's a whole hydra of property subsidising state schemes!

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-04-26 13:25|| 2019-04-26 13:25|| Front Page Top

#7 And, BP, when you cut the head off one of them two grow in its place!

Posted by Glenmore 2019-04-26 16:14|| 2019-04-26 16:14|| Front Page Top

#8 And then in October 2015, according to a report by Cook County Inspector General Patrick Blanchard, the Pritzkers had five toilets removed from the second house so that it would be classified as "uninhabitable" in a property tax appeal filed by the Pritzkers.

The toilets were removed shortly before the affidavits in the property tax appeal were submitted. The county assessor's office "lowered the 6,378-square-foot mansion's assessed value from $6.3 million to about $1.1 million," The Chicago Tribune reports.

Old news, I guess. Link to Oct 2018 NPR article. Sorry. Nice photo of the Gov at the link. Looks like he attends the Rocket Man School of Weight Management.

Posted by Bobby 2019-04-26 17:53|| 2019-04-26 17:53|| Front Page Top

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