Mayor Brandon Johnson’s team has been floating a change to his corporate head tax proposal that would increase the minimum size of companies affected from 100 to 200 employees, sources told the Tribune.

The mayor’s team this week has begun asking some members of the City Council if they would support the $21-per-employee-per-month tax if it applied only to the larger companies, according to three sources familiar with budget discussions. Johnson wants the enact the head tax on the smaller companies as well, but he is struggling to convince 26 out of 50 aldermen to vote for that.

Asked Wednesday morning about the potential head tax change, mayoral spokesperson Cassio Mendoza did not answer directly. In a statement, Mendoza said “conversations are ongoing with Aldermen on a number of poten

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