Key legislators involved in the mass transit reform talks don’t want the RTA to spend that unexpected $150 million now, ...

So you live in Illinois and want to make an online purchase of, for example, an Apple iPod Nano music player. You can shop by price, but maybe you should shop by sales tax too. For the same Nano ...

July, but back-to-school time is right around the corner, and some states are helping residents get ready. Many states offer ...

Starting Jan. 1, the Illinois law will change so that sales tax applies to the down payment and monthly lease payments. If the down payment is $2,000, the tax on that would be $165.

A 2024 law change in Illinois is turning out to have ramifications for the fiscal cliff facing Chicago-area transit agencies.

Illinois sales tax growth has averaged 3.4 percent over the past five years, lowest of the big three taxes. I decided to check up on them because of something Rich Miller wrote recently about the ...

The report concludes that expanding Illinois’ sales tax base to include more currently untaxed services would generate as much as $2 billion annually for the state.

Buy a bottle of nail polish in Illinois, and you'll pay anywhere from 6.25 percent to nearly 11 percent sales tax. Buy a manicure in Illinois and you pay zero sales tax. Unfair.

So-called %27Amazon tax%27 violates federal rules against discriminatory taxes on digital sales%2C says court; Illinois law had required out-of-state retailers to collect state taxes on annual ...