Lightfoot won't rule out broadening sales tax umbrella to include professional services

[TexasTowelie]

Is the sales tax on services — buried years ago after being branded the “Rahm tax” — about to be resurrected?

Will it someday be known as the “Lori levy”?

Mayor Lori Lightfoot isn’t saying. But she’s also not ruling it out.

One week after telling reporters there is “no question that we’re gonna have to come to the taxpayers and ask for additional revenue,” Lightfoot was asked about an idea that she, herself, raised during the mayoral campaign.

That is, asking the Illinois General Assembly to empower the city to broaden its sales tax umbrella to include an array of professional services still not taxed in an economy that is becoming increasingly more service-oriented.

Read more: https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2019/6/19/18691798/lightfoot-sales-tax-professional-services-city-budget-deficit-revenue

[mucifer]

1. It's hard to increase services with no money

[customerserviceguy]

2. It should be good for business in Indiana

Maybe not haircuts, but tax prep services might just flow across the border.

[TexasTowelie]

3. With the gas tax also going up

it might make a difference if you buy the gas and get the haircut on the same trip.

[customerserviceguy]

4. Yes, and Illinois will make it up

from folks from Indiana (and elsewhere) who want to buy weed.