Northbrook passes 1% grocery tax rather than lose $1.8 million in revenue

Northbrook passes 1% grocery tax rather than lose $1.8 million in revenue

Northbrook has joined a long line of municipalities enacting their own 1% grocery tax when the state’s 25-year-old tax for the same amount ends Jan. 1. Officials said without creating the village’s own tax, Northbrook would lose up to $1.8 million in revenue annually. “We would need to make up that lost revenue elsewhere, most likely through an increase in property taxes or other new taxes and fees,” Trustee Robert Israel said. “Since the local …