Monday, November 09, 2015
Chicago Tribune

From the notebook

*Another Preckwinkle tax: Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle will take a crack at her plan B for revenue Monday at a special board meeting where she will introduce a proposed 1 percent county hotel tax to replace a planned broadening of the amusement tax that met resistance.

The hotel tax ordinance had eight sponsors Friday, indicating Preckwinkle had some work ahead of her over the weekend to get a majority of the 17-member board behind the plan.
Also on Monday's meeting agenda is a proposed tax on ammunition, which county Commissioner Richard Boykin said he told Preckwinkle she needed to support if she wanted his vote for the hotel tax.

The ordinance calls for "centerfire ammunition" of the kind "commonly used in rifles, pistols and revolvers" to be taxed at a rate of 5 cents per bullet. And it calls for less expensive, generally lower caliber "rimfire ammunition" to be taxed at 1 cent per bullet.