IL’s highest-in-nation cell phone taxes rise more in latest state budget – Center Square

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.
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Wally
10 months ago

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.

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