{"id":4612,"date":"2017-01-24T23:30:10","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T05:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rnrachicago.org\/?p=4612"},"modified":"2017-01-24T23:30:10","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T05:30:10","slug":"bring-your-own-bag-chicago-checkout-bag-tax-effective-2-1-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/?p=4612","title":{"rendered":"Bring Your Own Bag &#8211; Chicago Checkout Bag Tax Effective 2-1-17"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\n<p>On November 16, 2016, the City of Chicago adopted the Chicago Checkout Bag Tax, a $.07\u00a0tax\u00a0on the retail sale or use of paper and plastic\u00a0checkout\u00a0bags in Chicago. Retail merchants are entitled to retain $.02, and the remaining $.05 is remitted to the City.<\/p>\n<p>After passage, the Department of Finance heard from many businesses who asked for a delay in the implementation in order to properly program the\u00a0tax into their point of sales systems.\u00a0 In order to allow for seamless start, the implementation of the\u00a0Checkout\u00a0Bag\u00a0Tax\u00a0was delayed until\u00a0Wednesday, February 1, 2017. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/campaign.r20.constantcontact.com\/render?m=1102200958373&amp;ca=c46f520a-2c4c-45ff-b9ce-a8dce7e90769&amp;id=preview\">(Source: \u00a042 Ward Report of 1-6-17)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the Checkout Bag Tax,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityofchicago.org\/city\/en\/depts\/fin\/provdrs\/tax_division\/news\/2016\/december\/NewCheckoutBagTax.html\"><strong>click here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 16, 2016, the City of Chicago adopted the Chicago Checkout Bag Tax, a $.07\u00a0tax\u00a0on the retail sale or use of paper and plastic\u00a0checkout\u00a0bags in Chicago. Retail merchants are entitled to retain $.02, and the remaining $.05 is remitted to the City. After passage, the Department of Finance heard from many businesses who asked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.rnrachicago.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}