{"id":19357,"date":"2026-04-11T15:27:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T20:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=19357"},"modified":"2026-04-11T15:27:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T20:27:38","slug":"fuck-illinois-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=19357","title":{"rendered":"FUCK ILLINOIS TAXES!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/TAX-ILLINOIS.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19358\" style=\"width:501px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/TAX-ILLINOIS.jpg 800w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/TAX-ILLINOIS-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/TAX-ILLINOIS-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/TAX-ILLINOIS-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>FUCK ILLINOIS! First time in 7 years of my podcast this state has added a 15% tax to my Soundcloud platform costing me an additional $21.06 that I wasn&#8217;t expecting. I wonder where that money is going?????<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Effective January 1, 2026, streaming services in Illinois are subject to new taxes, including a &#8220;social media amusement tax&#8221; in Chicago on specific large-scale platforms. These measures extend existing amusement taxes applied to digital streaming services in Chicago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FUCK ILLINOIS! First time in 7 years of my podcast this state has added a 15% tax to my Soundcloud platform costing me an additional $21.06 that I wasn&#8217;t expecting. I wonder where that money is going????? Effective January 1, 2026, streaming services in Illinois are subject to new taxes, including a &#8220;social media amusement&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=19357\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FUCK ILLINOIS TAXES!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19359,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19357\/revisions\/19359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}