Illinois wants more money and they’re coming for it.

Illinois wants more money and they’re coming for it. I shared a bit about this budget bill that passed the Illinois legislature. Well, it’s been signed into law. It includes several new taxes, including one on social media platforms. The way it’s written, that includes poor little AllTrails, a little app for discovering hiking routes. “A platform of this size has to pay ‘$165,000, plus $0.50 per month multiplied by the number of Illinois users over 1,000,000.’” The claim is that this would put AllTrails on the hook for about 8% of their revenue. ~ learn more