New Satellite Tax in Illinois?

[zippyfrog]

Is there anyone in Illinois who has received their first bill for 2024? I just received an email for my January 6 to Feb 6 2024 bill and noticed that Dish has a new sales tax line item that was never on there before. (I pulled up my previous 4 bills just to make sure I wasn't crazy!) I am not aware of Illinois passing a new tax on satellite TV service. I did a Google search for new taxes in 2024, and I am not coming across anything that is a satellite tax. Curious if anyone has any idea on what new law was passed?

 

[ChadT41]

What is it labeled as?

 

[cpdretired]

Yes .50 cents on my bill from 12/16 to 1/15/2024. I guess JB stuck us with another tax. No tax on the previous bills. I would say it's a state tax.

 

[cpdretired]

What is it labeled as?

State/Local Sales

 

[charlesrshell]

Is there anyone in Illinois who has received their first bill for 2024? I just received an email for my January 6 to Feb 6 2024 bill and noticed that Dish has a new sales tax line item that was never on there before. (I pulled up my previous 4 bills just to make sure I wasn't crazy!) I am not aware of Illinois passing a new tax on satellite TV service. I did a Google search for new taxes in 2024, and I am not coming across anything that is a satellite tax. Curious if anyone has any idea on what new law was passed?

I don't see it on my Illinois bill dated 01/06-2024 - 02/05/2024. The only extra I see is the FCC $0.11 surcharge. Maybe the county has something to do with it. I live in St Clair county about 15 miles east of St Louis.

 

[Bobby]

I’ll bet it’s a local amusment tax. They have that in Illinois. Not every locality would have it.

 

[navychop]

But it’s interesting.

 

[zippyfrog]

I’ll bet it’s a local amusment tax. They have that in Illinois. Not every locality would have it.

Really? That is interesting. I wonder if that is the case. I am in DuPage county, about 30 miles west of Chicago - I will have to dig to see.

And yes, my line item is also "State/Local Tax (Sales)". It is such a small percentage of the bill though. Nowhere near the county + state sales tax, which is around 8% here in DuPage county.

 

[cpdretired]

I'm in Cook County which has a higher tax rate than DuPage county.

 

[Bruce]

Is this the only TV Tax the state has?

Here in Florida, it is about 11.5%, 7% to the state, 6.5% to the County.

Does not matter if it is Traditional or Streaming, over all video services.

 

[zippyfrog]

Is this the only TV Tax the state has?

Here in Florida, it is about 11.5%, 7% to the state, 6.5% to the County.

Does not matter if it is Traditional or Streaming, over all video services.

As long as I can remember, Illinois has always taxed cable TV and U-Verse, but treated satellite differently because there were no poles, cables, or other utilities that the cities or state had to maintain. Chicago instituted a "Netflix tax" of 9% on streaming services in 2015, and other areas have done similar things.