New Vape Taxes In Chicago for 2016

Vaping in Chicago will get a little bit more expensive in 2016.

Via Chicago Now:

After a 2015 all too lacking in serious reform from the Windy City, Chicago residents will need to make New Year’s resolutions to tighten their family budgets.

Throughout the year, city politicians gifted Chicagoans with at least a dozen new city and county-level taxes, tax hikes and fee hikes, totaling $1.13 billion, or more than $1,100 per household.

Here are the major new taxes, tax hikes and fee hikes set to whack Chicagoans in 2016 and beyond:

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6) E-cigarette tax: A new $1.25 tax on the sale of e-cigarettes and a 25-cent-per-milliliter tax on the accompanying fluid will raise an estimated $1 million a year
New Cook County taxes, tax hikes and fee hikes