Chicago and Cook County residents aren’t the only ones about to get shocking tax news; the city is debuting a “tax whistle-blower” plan that could turn neighbor against neighbor in Chicago’s business community.
The folks at city hall will pay cash bounties to informants who turn in business tax cheats around the city. The reward would amount to some sort of percentage of the tax money that the city recovers.
"It's just another way of bringing people into compliance," Revenue Department spokesman Ed Walsh told the Sun-Times.
1984 anyone? The tax schemers in Obama's former digs are pitting residents against each other by inducing them to rat out their neighbors. We wonder if this concept will catch on nationwide. The politicians are finding fewer people to gouge as unemployment rises and raising taxes on Kool-Aid and Nehi sodas does not sit well with their constituents.
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