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The Cook County Treasurer is responsible for producing the actual tax bills sent to taxpayers. This package contains a set of real sample tax bills (stored in /data-raw as PDFs). This data set contains the summary statistics and metadata from those tax bills.

Note: All exemption columns (prefixed with exe_) are booleans for whether or not that exemption was received.

Usage

sample_tax_bills_summary

Format

A data frame containing 42 rows and 17 columns:

year

Tax year

pin

Property index number identifying a specific parcel or unit

tax_code

5-digit tax code

class

Property class

township_name

Township name

in_tif

Boolean for whether the PIN/tax code is in a Tax Increment Finance (TIF) district

in_ssa

Boolean for whether the PIN/tax code is in a Special Service Area (SSA)

exe_homeowner

Homeowner exemption

exe_senior

Senior exemption

exe_freeze

Senior freeze exemption

exe_longtime_homeowner

Longtime homeowner exemption

exe_disabled

Persons with disabilities exemption

exe_vet_returning

Veterans exemption

exe_vet_disabled

Veterans disability exemption

eav

Total EAV before exemptions

tax_amt_pre_exe

Total tax amount before exemptions

tax_amt_post_exe

Total tax amount after exemptions