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Analysis: Sales tax funded 12 percent of Village of Addison budget in 2016

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The Village of Addison's local sales tax brought in $8,006,876 in 2016, according to Illinois State Comptroller revenue data. Addison, population 36,942, relied on its local sales tax to contribute 12 percent of total revenue that year.

Addison levies a 1 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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