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News – Friday, May 23, 2025
FY 2025-25, Sales Tax Rate Change Summary, Effective July 1, 2025
Effective July 1, 2025, certain taxing jurisdictions have imposed a local sales tax or changed their local sales tax rate on general merchandise sales. The following taxes are affected:
- business district sales tax;
- county public safety, public facilities, mental health, substance abuse, or transportation sales tax;
- county school facilities sales tax;
- home rule municipal sales tax; and
- non-home rule municipal sales tax.
These local sales taxes are referred to in this bulletin as “locally imposed sales tax.”
You must adjust your cash register and any computer program so that beginning on July 1, 2025, you will collect and pay the correct sales tax. You need to contact your software vendor if you use software to create your forms.
To verify your new combined sales tax rate (i.e., State and local sales taxes), go to the MyTax Illinois Tax Rate Finder at mytax.illinois.gov and select rates for July 2025.
See FY 2025-25,Sales Tax Rate Change Summary, Effective July 1, 2025 for more information.