Chicago Implementing 9% Entertainment Tax on Video Games
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https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2018/11/08/video-gaming-tax-chicago/
The same amusement tax has applied to streaming entertainment
services since 2015, but starting on Nov. 14, PlayStation users in
Chicago will be hit with the same 9 percent tax charged by other
entertainment providers.
The new tax–the result of an agreement between Sony and the City of Chicago–has some gamers seeing red.
Some gamers on Thursday night were just getting word that their gaming hobby was about to get more expensive.
Its ridiculous that just because the City can't manage its money probably that people end having to be taxed more.
How is this gonna be enforced on a single city though?
Just tell Sony they made a mistake and you live outside of city limits.
This is how Sony's handling it.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/129/a1d28c94-d27e-46e2-9e0f-4ea9be8d15ec/1541621190902[1].jpg
Thank goodness Chicago is a city mostly isolated from its suburbs that doesn't take maybe a 10-20 minute train ride to a PO Box set up where these taxes aren't enforced.
We need to get voiceoverpete to do a thing on this.
Amusement Tax
What a ridiculous concept
for the record, chicagos sales tax is 10.25 lol yikes
Is this an added tax on top of sales tax and everything like that or have video games been avoiding those until now and this is an attempt to remedy that?
Chicago first to implement no fun allowed zone
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/200318/78795e43-292f-4e1b-a2a2-2607e51391a9/image.png
wtf im a libertarian now
What an awful idea. It's going to disproportionally impact lower and middle class households.
Not to mention product specific taxes need a damn good reason to exist, such as when the product is causing health issues
First they'll tax Playstation, then they'll tax fuckin'. And once you get really pissed off that they're taxing you every time you fuck someone, they'll tax masturbation as "amusement" too.
Only in Chicago.
what they really wanted was a gun tax, but they typo'd the first letter of "gun"
I usually only ever buy things online during a sale or at a surprisingly cheap little store just off the train station at Belmont, so this won't affect me too much. Regardless, I can't see a good reason why the city is putting up an extra tax for vidya. Having to pay an extra twelve bucks for a $60 game is absolute horseshit.
Isn't Illinois/Chicago one of the most corrupt areas in the US outside of the South?
Seems like the people of Chigaco have to make do with Chicago's most common past time of shooting each other instead of playing videogames.
just cutting through the posts here, It just seems like they're applying the chicago physical sales tax to streaming platforms which I guess is OK if you were purchasing the games but not if you're just buying the service. I wonder if they're going to go after all streaming services like netflix, amazon, and hulu because netflix does have some vpn protections now
gamers rise up
9% tax on being amused
wtf Chicago
are you amused?!
yes
pay up then
thats so dumb
we can't let you have too much fun now
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s-09gNDsPzQ
just pay your taxes you nerds, this is what, an extra $5 on a full priced game?
now adays that 5$ can actually make a difference in the later but short term
If you're dropping $60 on a leisure product, $5 shouldn't be enough to hurt you. If it is, you shouldn't buy games, you should spend money on surviving.
Price increases for no reason, even as little as $5, are bullshit.
This is why we shoot up shoot up schools. GAMERS RISE UP
It's not the only tax in the world, and when you start piling it on with other taxes that already exist you're pissing away your money.
For example in my home state roughly 40% of income goes to taxes (between Income, Fuel, Sales, and Property), and judging by online tax calculators Chicago isn't much different. That tax money adds up fast man.
Oh boy, it's this dog shit argument again, I really love when people try this one, it's money you shouldn't have to pay on top of what you're already spending, you think that paying $60 means the extra $5 is nothing? The principle of the matter is irrelevant then to you, so what's the cut off point before even you think it's taking the piss? $10? $15? $20? However much extra you have to pay isn't the point, the point is that you have to pay this extra amount for no good reason, I don't care if it's a relatively small amount, as I said, it's the principle of the matter, something people who try this argument lack or are just being dumb.
It's a baseless argument to bring to the table as far as I'm concerned.
What the fuck? I thought liberal cities and states had progressive taxation? Even Tennessee only goes up to 9.45 percent on average.
But then again, this is Chicago, and this is Illinois, so I guess I shouldn't expect them to behave like normal liberals.
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