Illinois Residents To See Income Tax, Property Tax Rebate Payments

ILLINOIS — In the coming weeks, Illinois residents will begin to see rebate checks showing up in the mail or their bank accounts as part of a tax relief program from which the one-time payments will be made.

Illinois residents will see a rebate of between $50 and $300, with the lowest amounts being paid to those who filed as being single on their taxes and with the highest amounts being paid for residents who claim dependents on their taxes, the Illinois state comptroller’s website said.

The payments will begin to go out on Sept. 12 and are part of Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s Family Relief Plan. The rebates come from income and property tax relief payments and could take up to two months for residents to see show up, Comptroller Susanna Mendoza said.

Qualified recipients for the income tax rebates must have filed their taxes in 2021 and must have made less in adjusted gross income than $200,000 individually or $400,000 if residents filed jointly on their taxes, officials said. Residents must have also paid their property taxes on their personal property in 2021 and 2022.

For property tax rebates, residents must have made less in adjusted gross income than $500,000 if they filed jointly and less than $250,000 if filing as an individual.

Residents will receive $50 if they filed as an individual, $100 if they filed jointly, and can receive $100 per dependent, up to three, officials said.

Income and property tax rebates will be automatically issued to all the estimated 6.2 million taxpayers who qualify under the Family Relief Plan based on information included in their submitted 2021 tax returns. Comptroller Susanna Mendoza will issue the rebates and expects to begin to cut checks the week of Sept. 12. Distribution will take roughly eight weeks after the rollout begins.

Taxpayers who did not file their 2021 individual income tax returns but want to claim the individual income tax rebate (both the property tax and individual income tax rebates) or solely claim the property tax rebate are able to do so, state officials announced in July.

Rebates will be sent to residents automatically using the same method original refunds were transmitted if they were sent directly to residents by state officials. If residents used direct deposit, the individual rebate will be deposited directly into a taxpayer's account, the state said.

If there was no refund or a paper refund was issued, the rebate will be mailed to the address on file.