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Tuesday, April 16, 2024

Analysis: Sales tax funded 10 percent of Village of Carol Stream budget in 2016

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The Village of Carol Stream's local sales tax brought in $4,250,987 in 2016, according to Illinois State Comptroller revenue data. Carol Stream, population 39,711, relied on its local sales tax to contribute 10 percent of total revenue that year.

Carol Stream levies a 0.75 percent sales tax. The average of seven suburbs in DuPage County is 0.89. The high is 1.25 percent; the low is 0.5 percent.

DuPage Policy Journal analyzed the sales tax collections in seven DuPage County suburbs and found they generated a total of $27,358,414 in tax revenue in 2016. That was the equivalent of 8% spent by local government.

Below is a list of DuPage County municipalities' local tax revenue.

Municipality
Population
Local sales tax rate
2016 revenue from sales tax
Percent of total revenue
Village of Addison
36,942
1%
$8,006,876
12%
Village of Bloomingdale
22,299
0.5%
$4,191,266
12%
Village of Carol Stream
39,711
0.75%
$4,250,987
10%
City of Warrenville
13,140
1.25%
$1,649,534
8%
Village of Glendale Heights
34,530
1.25%
$4,143,920
8%
Village of Itasca
8,302
0.5%
$1,246,560
5%
City of Wheaton
52,894
1%
$3,869,271
4%

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