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REVENUE (35 ILCS 200/) Property Tax Code. 35 ILCS 200/23-15
(35 ILCS 200/23-15)
Sec. 23-15.
Tax objection procedure and hearing.
(a) A tax objection complaint under Section 23-10 shall be filed in the
circuit court of the county in which the subject property is located.
Joinder of plaintiffs shall be permitted to the same extent permitted by law in
any personal action pending in the court and shall be in accordance with
Section 2-404 of the Code of Civil
Procedure; provided,
however, that no complaint shall be filed as a class action. The
complaint shall name the county collector as defendant and shall specify any
objections that the plaintiff may have to the taxes in question. No appearance
or answer by the county collector to the tax objection complaint, nor any
further pleadings, need be filed. Amendments to the complaint may be made to
the same extent which, by law, could be made in any personal action pending in
the court.
(b) (1) The court, sitting without a jury, shall hear and determine all
objections specified to the taxes, assessments, or levies in question. This
Section shall be construed to provide a complete remedy for any claims with
respect to those taxes, assessments, or levies, excepting only matters for
which an exclusive remedy is provided elsewhere in this Code.
(2) The taxes, assessments, and levies that are the subject of the objection
shall be presumed correct and legal, but the presumption is rebuttable.
The plaintiff has the burden of proving any contested matter of fact by
clear and convincing evidence.
(3) Objections to assessments shall be heard de novo by the court. The
court shall grant relief in the cases in which the objector meets the burden of
proof under this Section and shows an assessment to be incorrect or illegal.
If an objection is made claiming incorrect valuation, the court shall
consider the objection without regard to the correctness of any practice,
procedure, or method of valuation followed by the assessor, board of appeals,
or board of review in making or reviewing the assessment, and without regard
to the intent or motivation of any assessing official. The doctrine known
as constructive fraud is hereby abolished for purposes of all challenges to
taxes, assessments, or levies.
(c) If the court orders a refund of any part of the taxes paid, it shall
also order the payment of interest as provided in Section 23-20. Appeals may be
taken from final judgments as in other civil cases.
(d) This amendatory Act of 1995 shall apply to all tax objection matters
still pending for any tax year, except as provided in Sections 23-5 and 23-10
regarding procedures and time limitations for payment of taxes and filing tax
objection complaints.
(e) In counties with less than 3,000,000 inhabitants, if the court
renders a decision lowering the assessment of a particular parcel on which a
residence occupied by the owner is situated, the reduced assessment, subject to
equalization, shall remain in effect for the remainder of the general
assessment period as provided in Sections 9-215 through 9-225, unless that
parcel is subsequently sold in an arm's length transaction establishing a fair
cash value for the parcel that is different from the fair cash value on which
the court's assessment is based, or unless the decision of the
court is reversed or modified upon review.
(Source: P.A. 88-455; 88-642, eff. 9-9-94; 89-126, eff. 7-11-95; 89-290, eff.
1-1-96; 89-593, eff. 8-1-96; 89-626, eff. 8-9-96.)
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35 ILCS 200/23-20 (35 ILCS 200/23-20) Sec. 23-20. Effect of protested payments; refunds. No protest shall prevent or be a cause of delay in the distribution of tax collections to the taxing districts of any taxes collected which were not paid under protest. If the final order of the Property Tax Appeal Board or of a court results in a refund to the taxpayer, refunds shall be made by the collector from funds remaining in the Protest Fund until such funds are exhausted and thereafter from the next funds collected after entry of the final order until full payment of the refund and interest thereon has been made. Interest from the date of payment, regardless of whether the payment was made before the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1997, or from the date payment is due, whichever is later, to the date of refund shall also be paid to the taxpayer at the annual rate of the lesser of (i) 5% or (ii) the percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index For All Urban Consumers during the 12-month calendar year preceding the levy year for which the refund was made, as published by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. A claim for a refund resulting from a final order of the Property Tax Appeal Board shall not be allowed unless the claim is filed within 20 years from the date the right to a refund arose; provided, however, that the aggregate total of refunded taxes and interest shall not exceed $5,000,000 in any calendar year for claims filed more than 7 years after the right to the refund arose. If the payment of a claim for a refund would cause the aggregate total of taxes and interest to exceed $5,000,000 in any year, the refund shall be paid in the next succeeding year. The changes made to this Section by this amendatory Act of the 103rd General Assembly apply to matters concerning refund claims filed on or after the first day of the first month following the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 103rd General Assembly. (Source: P.A. 103-655, eff. 7-19-24.) |
35 ILCS 200/23-25
(35 ILCS 200/23-25)
Sec. 23-25.
Tax exempt property; restriction on judicial determinations.
(a) No taxpayer
may file an objection as
provided in Section 21-175 or Section 23-10 on the grounds that the
property is exempt from
taxation, or otherwise seek a judicial determination as to tax exempt status,
except as provided in Section 8-40 and except as otherwise provided in this
Section and Section 14-25 and Section 21-175.
(b) Nothing in this Section shall
affect the right of a governmental agency to seek a judicial determination as
to the exempt status of property for those years during which eminent domain
proceedings were pending before a court, once a certificate of exemption for
the property is obtained by the governmental agency under Section 8-35 or
Section 8-40.
(c) This Section shall not apply to exemptions granted under Sections
15-165
through 15-180.
(d) The limitation in this Section shall not apply to court proceedings
relating to an exemption for the 1985 assessment year and preceding assessment
years. However, an order entered in any such proceeding shall not preclude the
necessity of applying for an exemption for 1986 or later assessment years in
the manner provided by Section 16-70 or 16-130.
(e) The limitation in this Section shall not apply to court proceedings to
establish an exemption for any specific assessment year, provided that the
plaintiff or its predecessor in interest in the property has established an
exemption for any subsequent or prior assessment year on grounds comparable to
those alleged in the court proceedings. For purposes of this subsection, the
exemption for a subsequent or prior year must have been determined under
Section 8-35 or a prior similar law by the Department or a predecessor agency,
or under Section 8-40. Court proceedings permitted by this subsection may be
initiated while proceedings for the subsequent or prior year under Section
16-70, 16-130, 8-35, or 8-40 are still pending, but judgment shall not be
entered until the proceedings under Section 8-35 or 8-40 have terminated.
(Source: P.A. 89-126, eff. 7-11-95; 90-679, eff. 7-31-98.)
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35 ILCS 200/23-30
(35 ILCS 200/23-30)
Sec. 23-30.
Conference on tax objection.
Following the
filing of an objection under Section 23-10, the court may hold a
conference
with the objector and the State's Attorney. Compromise
agreements on tax objections reached by conference shall be filed with the
court, and the parties shall prepare an order covering
the settlement
and submit the order to the court for
entry.
(Source: P.A. 88-455; 89-126, eff. 7-11-95.)
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35 ILCS 200/23-35
(35 ILCS 200/23-35)
Sec. 23-35.
Tax objection based on budget or appropriation ordinance.
Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 23-10, no objection to
any property
tax levied by any municipality shall be sustained by any court because of the
forms of any budget or appropriation ordinance, or the degree of itemization or
classification of items therein, or the reasonableness of any amount budgeted
or appropriated thereby, if:
(a) a tentative budget and appropriation ordinance | | was prepared at the direction of the governing body of the municipality and made conveniently available to public inspection for at least 30 days prior to the public hearing specified below and to final action thereon;
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(b) at least one public hearing has been held by the
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(c) the budget and appropriation ordinance finally
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"Municipality", as used in this Section, means all municipal corporations
in, and political subdivisions of, this State except the following: counties;
cities, villages and incorporated towns; sanitary districts created under
the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Act; forest preserve districts
having a population of 3,000,000 or more, created under the Cook County Forest
Preserve Park District Act; boards of education of school districts in cities
exceeding 1,000,000 inhabitants; the Chicago Park District created under the
Chicago Park District Act; and park districts as defined in subsection (b) of
Section 1-3 of the Park District Code.
(Source: P.A. 91-357, eff. 7-29-99.)
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35 ILCS 200/23-40
(35 ILCS 200/23-40)
Sec. 23-40.
Error or informality in making levy or in certifying or filing.
In all judicial proceedings concerning the levying and collection of taxes, an
error or informality of any officer or officers in making any tax levy or in
certifying or filing the levy not affecting the substantial justice of the levy
itself, shall not vitiate or void the levy or affect the tax. When the error
or informality in a levy, its certification, filing or publication can be
corrected by amendment, or a levy can be sufficiently itemized, the purpose
defined and made certain by amendment, made prior to the entry of any order of
court affecting the levy or the collection of taxes thereon, an amendment or
amendments, certification, filing or publication may be made by the taxing
bodies affected. The ordinance, resolution, publication or certificate, as
amended, certified, filed or published, shall, upon proof of such amendment or
amendments, certification, filing or publication being made to the court, have
the same force and effect as though originally adopted, published, filed and
certified in the amended form. The aggregate amount or rate of the original
levy shall not be increased by an action taken under this Section. A statute
terminating the time within which appropriations or tax levies may be made,
published, certified or filed, shall not apply to any republication,
recertification or refiling, or to any amendment or revision authorized or
permitted by this Section.
(Source: Laws 1939, p. 886; P.A. 88-455.)
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35 ILCS 200/23-45
(35 ILCS 200/23-45)
Sec. 23-45.
Time limit after objection is filed with the Court.
If, after
10 years from the
date an objection is filed there has been no further action on the objection,
the objection shall be dismissed as a matter of law with prejudice. The
circuit clerk shall enter the dismissal of record. The Collector may then
distribute the taxes. The Collector shall determine whether to use the tax
rates for the year the objection was filed or the tax rates for the most recent
tax year in distributing the taxes. This Section applies to tax objections
filed before, on, or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of
1996.
(Source: P.A. 89-695, eff. 12-31-96.)
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35 ILCS 200/Tit. 9
(35 ILCS 200/Tit. 9 heading)
TITLE 9.
OTHER PROVISIONS
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35 ILCS 200/Art. 24
(35 ILCS 200/Art. 24 heading)
Article 24.
General Provisions
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