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The Evanston City Council voted on May 26, 2020 to introduce an ordinance that would extend its 5% amusement tax to reach online gaming and streaming. The Council stated that the increase is a reaction to a projected decrease in tax revenue from in-person...

Effective April 1, 2020, the Cook County Department of Revenue is no longer applying its amusement tax to sales of paid television to non-residential customers, such as bars and hotels. The amusement tax ordinance never expressly applied to paid television...

On May 22, 2019, the Illinois Appellate Court held that the late filing of a boat tour business’ Amusement Tax protest was excusable. The Cook County Department of Revenue had violated the taxpayer’s procedural due process rights by “affirmatively misleading...