New Illinois mileage tax! You may soon pay as much as 30 cents a mile tax based on how many miles you drive in Illinois, if Illinois Democrats and JB Pritzker (D) get their way.

It’s called the “Road Usage charge act”.
Illinois Senate bill 1938 calls for the following:

”mileage-based revenue”

The new law would assess a user fee on owners of motor vehicles starting on January 1, 2026 according to language in the proposed legislation: 

“ …..assess a user fee on owners of motor vehicles that is based on the number of miles traveled on public roadways in this State by those vehicles. “

In order to make this happen, the state of Illinois would require tracking devices on your vehicle to determine the mileage or check your odometer on a periodic basis to see how many miles you’ve traveled in a given period of time

Q: are you OK with the state of Illinois tracking your location 24/7?

Democrats in Springfield say this new tax would eventually eliminate the gasoline tax, but that is unlikely because local municipalities and other taxing bodies utilize gasoline sales to generate local sales tax, along with additional per gallon taxes on top of the sales tax.