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What are TIFs?
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What are TIFs?
• Created by municipality (state
statute)
• Boundaries cross political and
community boundaries
• Designed to subsidize some
business project in “blighted” or
under-served area
• Captures “incremental” property
taxes ABOVE base when district
was created
• Lasts 23 years
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What are TIFs?
• FUELED BY OUR PROPERTY TAXES
• ONLY FOR BUILDING THINGS (SMALL
EXCEPTION = TIF Works job training)
• TIF $ HANDCUFFED TO WHERE
COLLECTED (Except where they are moved or ported)
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How Do TIFs Work?When the TIF is created,
the city tallies up all the
property taxes
generated by district in
that year (called the
"base" amount). After
that, all property tax
increases above the
base (the "increment")
are channeled to the TIF
district.
The property taxes
collected from
properties inside the
district BEFORE the
district was created
that go to units of
government stays
FLAT for the life of the
TIF (23 years).
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Money From TIFs Taken From?
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What are TIFs?
Under state law, areas proposed for TIF designation
must possess numerous blighting factors to be
eligible:
• Age
• Obsolescence
• Code violations
• Excessive vacancies
• Overcrowding of facilities
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TIFs Used to support commercial projects in these “Blighted” Areas
40 S. Halsted
Apple Store
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Mr. TIF
To sum up:
TIFs = property taxes
Increment $ collected by TIF
Run by city
Lasts 23 years
Blight & “But for” conditions
Hard to track
BIG deal in Chicago & Illinois
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What are TIFs doing to us?
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That’s all we’re going to show you for free. Sorry, but we’ve
got some serious monthly expenses to meet at the
CivicLab – so if you’d like to get the full presentation,
please visit our TIF Data Store at
http://www.tifreports.com/store.
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