Carmi City Council last night voted to impose its own 1% grocery tax (Ordinance 1663) after the state's 1% tax expires on January 1, 2026. The state of Illinois suspended the tax last year, but left the option open for municipalities to impose, without referendum, their own grocery tax of 1%. The tax goes only to local municipalities and is estimated to provide up to $120,000 in revenues to Carmi. It was first implemented in 1990 and then paused from July 2022 to June 2023, but re-implemented after that.
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