{"id":5362,"date":"2015-07-03T11:54:35","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T11:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/07\/03\/chicago-adds-9-percent-tax-to-streaming-services\/"},"modified":"2015-07-03T11:54:35","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T11:54:35","slug":"chicago-adds-9-percent-tax-to-streaming-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2015\/07\/03\/chicago-adds-9-percent-tax-to-streaming-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Adds 9 Percent Tax To Streaming Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/a\/a9\/Harold_Washington_Library%2C_Chicago%2C_IL_-_front_oblique.jpg\/800px-Harold_Washington_Library%2C_Chicago%2C_IL_-_front_oblique.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"217\" height=\"290\" \/><br \/>Starting  Wednesday, Chicago residents will have to pay a nine percent tax to use  streaming services such as Netflix, and remote databases like Lexis  Nexis, The Chicago Tribune reports. The new tax stems out of a June ruling from the city\u2019s Department of  Finance that expands both Chicago\u2019s\u00a0\u201celectronically delivered  amusements\u201d and \u201cnonpossessory computer leases\u201d tax to cover certain  online services.   <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>The expansion of \u201celectronically delivered amusements\u201d will effect  users of media streaming services such as Spotify or Netflix. The latter  tax will effect primarily businesses that use services like Amazon Web  Services or YCharts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe already have a fair amount of expense with various regulations,\u201d  Shawn Carpenter, CEO and co-founder of the Chicago based financial  software YCharts told\u00a0the Tribune.\u00a0\u201cAs more and more get added, it makes it that much tougher to do business.\u201d<\/p>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>Source: Daily Caller<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting Wednesday, Chicago residents will have to pay a nine percent tax to use streaming&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}