{"id":85143,"date":"2018-11-26T12:02:34","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T20:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/chicago-slaps-playstation-users-with-expansion-of-9-percent-amusement-tax"},"modified":"2018-11-26T12:02:34","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T20:02:34","slug":"chicago-slaps-playstation-users-with-expansion-of-9-percent-amusement-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/chicago-slaps-playstation-users-with-expansion-of-9-percent-amusement-tax","title":{"rendered":"Chicago slaps PlayStation users with expansion of 9 percent amusement tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chicago-slaps-playstation-users-with-expansion-of-9-percent-amusement-tax.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>PlayStation users will now see an extra 9 percent tax applied to some purchases on the platform.<\/p>\n<p>Sony has agreed to comply with Chicago\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityofchicago.org\/city\/en\/depts\/fin\/supp_info\/revenue\/tax_list\/amusement_tax.html\">amusement tax<\/a>, leaving PlayStation users to face an extra 9 percent tax on streaming and rental services, effective Nov. 14. This latest expansion of the city\u2019s amusement tax will apply to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/ps4\/2018\/11\/10\/18082646\/chicago-cloud-tax-playstation-network-ps4\">purchases<\/a> such as rentals, but not full sales of games.<\/p>\n<p>The city\u2019s amusement tax used to mostly apply to purchases of concert and sporting event tickets. However, the Chicago Department of Finance <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityofchicago.org\/content\/dam\/city\/depts\/rev\/supp_info\/TaxRulingsandRegulations\/AmusementTaxRuling_5_06_09_2015.pdf\">ruled in 2015<\/a> that the tax covered streaming services such as Netflix, Hulu and Spotify. This expansion of the amusement tax is commonly dubbed the \u201cNetflix tax\u201d or the \u201ccloud tax.\u201d In addition to being regressive, it is also likely illegal.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.illinoispolicy.org\/chicago-slaps-playstation-users-with-expansion-of-9-percent-amusement-tax\/\">https:\/\/www.illinoispolicy.org\/chicago-slaps-playstation-use...ement-tax\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PlayStation users will now see an extra 9 percent tax applied to some purchases on the platform. Sony has agreed to comply with Chicago\u2019s amusement tax, leaving PlayStation users to face an extra 9 percent tax on streaming and rental services, effective Nov. 14. This latest expansion of the city\u2019s amusement tax will apply to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":441,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/441"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}