Brandon Johnson's budget director got illegal property tax breaks for five years

Brandon Johnson's budget director got illegal property tax breaks for five years

For the past five years, Mayor Brandon Johnson’s budget director has illegally gotten property tax breaks on a South Loop condo she owns but hasn’t lived in since 2019.Annette Guzman got those tax breaks from her former boss, Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi. They've saved her $3,434 in taxes on a condo she called an investment property on the required financial disclosure statement she filed with the Cook County clerk a year ago.Guzman and Kaeg…

Brandon Johnson’s budget director got illegal property tax breaks for five years – Chicago Sun-Times

Altogether, records show, Annette Guzman got $3,434.59 in erroneous exemptions on a South Loop condo over the past five years, yet the assessor’s office told her to repay only $2,071.89. It’s unclear if the assessor - formerly her boss - will order her to repay the $1,362.70 in tax breaks she got while she wasn’t living in the South Loop condo.