Illinois Tax Increase: Alcohol, Soda, Candy and Shampoo!

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The cost of living just went up for Illinois residents, but not because of inflation or other economic conditions. Rather, today marks the effective date for increased taxes levied upon alcohol, candy, soft drinks and personal hygiene products. The taxes, part of the $31 billion capital bill, are designed to offset the costs of infrastructure spending across the state.

Starting today a fifth of liquor in Illinois will now cost an additional 81 cents, reflecting a 90% increase in the excise tax on hard liquor. In addition, a 90% increase on the taxation of a bottle of wine and 24% increase in taxes on beer will also hit Illinois consumers. Despite, the increased taxes going into effect today, consumers may not feel the full effect of the legislation until a month from now. Most liquor stores and grocers have stock-piled as much liquor as possible in an attempt to keep prices lower for consumers for as long as possible.

September 1st also marks the effective date for a more than 600% increase on the taxation of candy, soft drink, and health & beauty products. Illinois, following the lead of nearly a dozen other states, changed the tax classification on these products, marking the birth of a new era in which lawmakers target taxation on these products in the same manner that they have targeted alcohol and tobacco in the past.

In Illinois, the taxes on Candy (of which definitions of candy have caused massive retailer confusion), soft drink and personal hygiene products will increase from the past 1% sales tax rate to the state's general merchandise rate of 6.25%. As a result, every Illinois citizen will pay more for everything from sweet tea to toothpaste. The resulting increase will be felt more in the Chicago than other area as Chicago will now host not only the highest sales tax of any city in the United States, but also the highest alcohol taxes as well.
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8 comments // Illinois Tax Increase: Alcohol, Soda, Candy and Shampoo!

  • hunzedog
  • Pete_Mechales
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      Pete_Mechales  

    • hard to believe they got away with increasing the tax on items like toothpaste and shampoo and lumping it in with the cigarrte, liquor , junk food tax and no one even seems to notice

      This state is a cesspool and i hope to leave one day

    • 5 months ago
  • thrill_god
  • samthesixth
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      samthesixth  

    • Shampoo? We don't want people to have clean hair?

      Or perhaps they are doing the rest of us a favor in that it would take so much shampoo to clean up the cesspool known as Chicago that it would force skyrocketing prices for the product......

    • 7 months ago
  • Ihatethemall
  • lordsbassman
  • J_Jammer
  • Ihatethemall
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      Ihatethemall  

    • The great state of Illinois is raising taxes on its people again. 10.25% is the sales tax in Cook County {Chicago}
      In Chicago you need to have you fingerprints taken to sell your house. They charge you $25.00. Who in their right mind would live here? Another fine example of democrats at work and what happens to a state is run by them. They can't keep a governor out of prison. The entire political democrat machine is corrupt, namely chicago because lets face it, anyone who knows Illinois or Chicago knows that the state is run by the city.
      This is the type of influince that obama was brought up in. This is the type of politician obama is. A crook from Chi-town

    • 7 months ago
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