The Lake County Board on Tuesday approved a measure allowing a portion of property tax payments to be deferred for 60 days.
Lake County taxpayers can defer half their property tax payments for 60 days under a measure approved Tuesday to provide residents with some economic breathing room.
And in a significant change over what was being considered, a proposed requirement that residents show a need for the deferral was struck by the Lake County Board, meaning the relief will be more widely available.
As recently as Friday, residents would have to prove they’d been laid off or operated a business shut down as nonessential and hadn’t received any federal stimulus money.
“There’s no one who has been unscathed by what we’re living through,” said board member Ann Maine of Lincolnshire, who introduced an amendment to eliminate the requirement. “We need to do everything we can for everyone.”
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