Chicago, Illinois

If you’ve been collecting tax in Chicago

You will no longer be able to collect tax in Chicago only.  If you’ve been collecting tax in Chicago only, you are now required to collect both Chicago and Cook County Amusement Tax.

When you set up your event, you’ll be able to enter your Chicago and Cook County Amusement Tax ID’s and continue to collect taxes on your total sales using our tax tool. If you don’t enter a Chicago and Cook County Amusement Tax ID, you won’t be able to add amusement tax to your ticket sales and Eventgroove Events will do so on your behalf. 

If you or your event is tax-exempt

Exemptions on Sales Tax for Admission Tickets
If your organization has an exemption certificate for the state where your venue is located, you may upload it in your 'My Account' profile. When your event is published, a third party integration will assess if the exemption applies to the sales tax on admission tickets in the relative jurisdiction. If you have a certificate uploaded and sales tax is populating on transactions, yet you have identified where an exemption is explicit to your use case, please send the appropriate documentation listed below along with the regulatory URL identifying the applicable tax code to accounting@eventgroove.com. Be sure to include your Event ID so that Eventgroove Support can determine if a manual exemption is allowable.