Digital Chamber Sues Illinois to Block Digital Asset Tax Act
The complaint argues the 2027 levy is a sales tax applied to assets Illinois already classifies as non-possessory, double-taxing what the state itself has said does not exist as property.
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The complaint argues the 2027 levy is a sales tax applied to assets Illinois already classifies as non-possessory, double-taxing what the state itself has said does not exist as property.
The 32-page complaint argues digital assets are being taxed because of the technology itself, not the economic substance, and asks a state court to halt the levy before it takes effect.
The plaintiffs ask courts to declare long-dormant Bitcoin abandoned, but the wallets that actually transacted while the case was pending expose the limits of an 'inactivity equals abandonment' theory…