Mayor Suggests New Taxes on Corporations to Help Balance Budget, Drawing Pushback From Alderpersons

Mayor suggests new taxes on corporations to help balance budget, drawing pushback from alderpersons

Mayor Brandon Johnson suggested that new taxes on corporations could help balance the City of Chicago budget, drawing pushback from alderpersons.

Mayor Johnson says public desire to ramp up taxes on big corporations affirmed by survey results

<p>Nearly 90% of Chicagoans surveyed want to tax corporations to expand city services, Mayor Brandon Johnson said Tuesday, promising to deliver what he can locally while asking the state to empower the city to impose more business taxes.</p><p>Johnson released a “budget engagement report” that he believes strengthens his hand in the <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2026/09/28/city-council-opposition-pre-election-budge…

Mayor Brandon Johnson again calls for taxes on big corporations as budget showdown looms

Mayor Brandon Johnson on Tuesday again argued large corporations must pay more taxes to help Chicago balance its books.

Public wants taxes boosted on big business, and survey proves it, Mayor Johnson claims

Nearly 90% of Chicagoans surveyed want to tax corporations to expand city services, Mayor Brandon Johnson said Tuesday, promising to deliver what he can locally while asking the state to empower the city to impose more business taxes. Johnson released a “budget engagement report” that he believes strengthens his hand in the battle for a preelection budget with the renegade City Council majority that rejected his corporate head tax a year ago. Of…