Illinois charges a 6.25% sales tax for sales within the state. There are many exceptions to sales tax in Illinois, some of the most common exceptions are movie tickets, food purchased at grocery stores, food sold in a student cafeteria, newspapers, some Internet sales, and sales by nonprofit organizations.
The Ohio General Assembly established the CAT in 2005 as part of a series of tax reforms in the FY 06-07 budget (Am. Sub. HB 66). HB 66 phased-in the CAT and simultaneously phased-out the state corporate franchise tax and local tangible personal property tax for most businesses.
The charter of a corporation is also called its general franchise. A franchise tax is a tax imposed by the state on the right and privilege of conducting business as a corporation for the purposes for which it was created and in the conditions that surround it.