Will All Highland Park Pay Taxes for Private Clubs?
Pending court decision would take golf courses like Old Elm, Exmoor, Bob-O-Link and Northmoor off tax rolls and shift burden to all community taxpayers.
A property tax appeal by the Onwentsia Club of Lake Forest could have far reaching effects on Lake County taxpayers and those in Highland Park in particular as well as communities throughout the state. As the appeal stands, country club land like that belonging to Old Elm, Exmoor, Bob O'Link and Northmoor Country Clubs, including improvements such as clubhouses, would be granted open space status and therefore would receive a zero assessment. Get local news in a daily email from Patch. It's like getting a free newspaper. Learn more. “The public needs to know what benefits these organizations, country clubs, are getting. Should we be providing tax relief for them?” Lake County Assessor Martin Paulsen said. He said the ruling could result …
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Cliff Hanger
1:58 pm on Saturday, February 9, 2013
Perhaps it's time (or well past it) to treat these 'let-them-eat-cake' proposals with the same amount of laughter as we do indignation.... It's 2013 and we're still using the word "allow"?? Come on folks, laughing in the face of a bully, deflates and defeats him - anger only fuels their fire. Picture the next public Q and A either one way or the other... "Laughed out of office" sure beats the … more ›