embrace the suck...
Posted on 11/28/2016 11:17:54 AM PST by george76
Last year, the Emanuel administration slipped through a tax on streaming video and cloud computing. Now, again without public hearings, City Hall is targeting bars and restaurants with a surcharge on satellite TV feeds.
Earlier this month, the city served notice that its 9 percent amusement tax applies to businesses that subscribe to satellite TV services. The impact likely will be felt most by public spaces that buy premium subscriptions for NFL and college games that can easily run $5,000 to $10,000 a year, meaning their annual taxes would come to at least $450.
"This is obviously a huge concern to our members," says Sam Toia, president of the Illinois Restaurant Association. "We did not expect the city to take this sudden shift in policy, which is going to hurt our members, especially the little guys and the independent guys out in the neighborhoods."
What the city is doing "is crazy," he adds. "They're nickel-and-diming these small places. They're going to kill them."
Under Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Chicago has raised a slew of taxes and fees to cover massive shortfalls in municipal employee pension plans, including new charges on garbage collection, water and sewer service, and plastic shopping bags. The satellite TV tax took even more creativity to come into being.
City Hall already taxes cable TV service, requiring providers like Comcast and AT&T to charge and collect the amusement tax from customers and pass it along to the city. But federal law says satellite service is different and its providers can't be taxed in the same way. So the Emanuel administration is going to collect the tax from satellite TV customers directly
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Keep voting democrat!
Close your business and move it outside the reach of the corrupt Chicago politicians.
Dhimmicrats - bringing Detroit to every city they can!
That’s what liberals/commies do! Suck it up blue state buttercup!
The lib saps will pay for it because of the Cubs.
Uh no, the CUSTOMERS pay the taxes. Always.
When the price point on a beer reaches a certain price point, $7, $8, or $9 the consumer will say screw it and drink at home. That is what I did. Buy a 30 pack at WalMart and drink at home for 75 cents per beer. I have not been in a bar for years.
And remember as you are being robbed (by armed robbers, not Democrats) that your new taxes help pay to keep Chicago gun bans in place.
It is CHIRAQO and could not care less!
I feel sorry for those that know better but cannot excise themselves. To all the others, ESAD!
Fortunately, I was never a barfly.
Not one bit sorry for them. They wanted Democrats; they voted them in; they have the government they want and deserve.
A complete piece of crap article. Crain’s Chicago Business is to the Left of Castro. They constantly attacked Trump during and after the election - now their circulation is in the toilet. Laid off staff last week. So the answer is to attack Rahm? Good Luck!
Have they taxed oxygen?
embrace the suck...
Anybody that pays that much for a pint is either rich, or has a screw loose.
Or putting it on a corporate expense card.
Politicians are kind of like a farmer that keeps having more and more children, then beats the cow when it can't produce enough milk to feed them.
Read on a Chicago cop blog that there are few health inspections going on at restaurants. The health department is way understaffed and can’t even keep up with once a year inspections. That’s what happens when socialists run out of other people’s money.
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