The crypto industry is pushing back against a new tax law in the state of Illinois that enacts a 0.2% tax on businesses transacting or storing crypto for customers in the state, but it may be too late to change it in the short-term.
The law enacts a 0.2% tax on “receiving any digital asset business activity,” according to the text of the bill, which defined digital asset business activity as “any single occurrence of exchanging, transferring or storing a digital asset as part of a business or on behalf of a customer.”
The tax applies to firms that are based in Illinois or provide services to residents of the state with total gross receipts of at least $100,000. The tax is expected to raise around $60 million, said a person following the…





