Anyone who subscribes to a streaming service in Arlington Heights will be subject to a new local tax, village board members decided Monday night. AP

Arlington Heights will levy a new streaming tax, and keep an old grocery tax, village board members decided Monday.

The new 5% tax on streaming entertainment subscriptions purchased by homeowners — approved by a 7-2 vote — will help pay the personnel costs of six new paramedics who will staff a fifth fire department ambulance.

The 1% local grocery tax is due to expire statewide at the end of the year, unless municipalities vote by Oct. 1 to retain it. That vote Monday night in Arlington Heights was slightly closer: 6-3.

Village officials said without the two taxes, they might have been forced to raise the property tax levy 8.25%.

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