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Lightfoot to ask legislature for power to tax high-end professional services and big-ticket home sales

AUGUST 20, 2019 | by Fran Spielman | CHICAGO SUN-TIMES

“… Sources said the mayor is prepared to portray those two local taxes as the only alternative to a dreaded property tax increase she wants desperately to avoid after former Mayor Rahm Emanuel doubled the city’s levy. … One week before her landslide victory, Lightfoot suggested taxing ‘high-end’ legal and accounting services to satisfy a looming $1 billion spike in pension payments.”

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