Bill on the floor of IL Senate to tax Netflix, cable, and landscaping

SPRINGFIELD, IL (Hillary Gowins, illinoispolicy.org Please click to read the full story here is an excerpt.) Just as summer weather rolls around, an Illinois state politician has proposed taxing landscaping services. Senate Bill 9 gained infamy when state Sen. Toi Hutchinson, D-Chicago Heights, filed an amendment to the bill March 2 proposing a 6.25 percent sales tax to cable TV and internet streaming services such as Netflix, but the proposal covers much more. In fact, SB 9 would apply this 6.25 sales tax to services including: mowing, watering, and aerating lawns weeding mulching raking leaves tree and shrub trimming and removal planting of trees, shrubs, flowering and -flowering plants, and sod; spraying; fertilizer applying chemicals; lawn and garden installation constructing, remodeling, or repairing irrigation or lawn sprinkler systems, patios (other than asphalt, tar, macadam, or poured concrete), walkways (other than asphalt, tar, macadam, or poured concrete), fences, trellises, and retaining walls grading (such as the filling or leveling of topsoil for lawns and gardens)https://www.illinoispolicy.org/summer-jobs-tax-sb-9-would-tax-landscaping-and-other-yard-services/