Before the new state budget took effect, Illinois already had the highest local wireless tax in the country at 7 percent. The tax rate went up to 8.65 percent on July 1 with the start of the new fiscal year. Dylan Sharkey, assistant editor at the Illinois Policy Institute, said the combined tax burden for cell phone users rose to 37.7 percent.
Understanding your cell phone bill is hard. Connectivity charges, universal charges, state and local taxes as well as your data plans and multiple phones. Sneaking in a tax increase will not be noticed except by the most diligent observers. Easy pickings for Pritzker.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Understanding your cell phone bill is hard. Connectivity charges, universal charges, state and local taxes as well as your data plans and multiple phones. Sneaking in a tax increase will not be noticed except by the most diligent observers. Easy pickings for Pritzker.