And, as far as McHenry County goes, the only local legislative Democrat is State Rep. Sue Ness.
Being considered for a first-time sales tax are the following services, according to the Illinois Policy Institute:
Here are just a few of the services they’d love to start taxing you on, says IllinoisPolicy:
- Netflix and streaming services.
- Rideshare services such as Über and Lyft.
- Gym memberships.
- Barbershops and beauty salons.
- Car washes and car repair.
- Plumbing, electrical and other repair.
- Lawn care and landscaping.
Oh, that’s not all. There’s a lot more to it than just those listed above. Over 80 service tax-hike categories are on the list. This might take you some scrolling, but here they all are, courtesy of StopILServiceTax.com:
- Alteration and garment repair
- Armored car services
- Bank & financial institution service charges
- Barber and beauty services
- Battery, tire, and allied services
- Boat repair
- Camera repair
- Campgrounds
- Carpentry repair and installation
- Carpet, rug, and upholstery cleaning or repair
- Communication services
- Dance schools and studios
- Dating services
- Demolition
- Dry cleaning, pressing, dyeing, laundering
- Electrical & electronic repair or installation
- Employment and executive search agencies
- Excavating and grading
- Extermination services
- Farm implement repair of all kinds
- Flying service and flight instruction
- Furniture repair and cleaning
- Fur storage and repair
- Garbage collection & disposal (nonresidential commercial)
- Golf & country club dues and other commercial recreation fees
- Gun repair
- House & building moving
- Household appliance, TV, and radio repair
- Investment counseling
- Information services
- Janitorial & nonresidential building maintenance/cleaning
- Jewelry and watch repair
- Landscaping, lawn care, tree trimming & removal
- Machine operator fees
- Machine repair of all kinds
- Massages (unless by a licensed massage therapist)
- Mini storage
- Motor repair
- Motor vehicle, RV, and recreational boat rental (without driver)
- Motorcycle, scooter, and bicycle repair
- Oilers & lubricators (vehicles and machines)
- Office & business machine repair
- Painting, papering, interior decorating
- Parking facilities
- Pay television (incl. streaming, VOD, pay per view)
- Personal transportation services
- Pet grooming
- Photography & photo retouching services
- Pipe fitting
- Plumbing (incl. drain cleaning, pipe unplugging)
- Reflexology
- Retouching photographs
- Roof, shingle, and glass repair
- Security & detective services
- Sewage services
- Sewing and stitching
- Shoe repair and shoeshine
- Sign construction and installation
- Services related to installing/maintaining/upgrading specified digital products
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Storage warehouses/lockers for raw agricultural products
- Storage of household goods
- Storage of tangible or electronic files/documents/records
- Swimming pool cleaning and maintenance
- Tanning beds or salons
- Taxidermy
- Telecommunication services
- Telephone answering services
- Testing laboratories (excludes human, animal, environmental tests)
- Tin and sheet metal repair
- Tree trimming and removal
- Turkish baths & reducing salons
- Vehicle repair
- Vehicle wash and wax
- Video game services and tournaments
- Water conditioning and softening
- Weighing
- Welding
- Well drilling (repair only)
- Wood preparation (stripping, cleaning, sealing)
- Wrapping, packing, packaging of merchandise (except processed meats/fish/fowl/vegetables)
- Wrecker and towing
Read More: Illinois Residents Brace For New Sales Tax Proposals
Note the Democrats do not propose taxing legal services.
Ness email addresses are below
- Suzanne Ness Political vote4suzanneness@gmail.com
- Office of State Representative Suzanne Ness inforepness66@gmail.com
I would suggest sending your advice to both email addresses.
