How to charge only state tax in Illinois?

Accounting & Taxes

Topic summary

Issue: Store is set to charge only Illinois state tax at 6.25%, but checkout is still adding county and city taxes, pushing totals above 8%. The goal is to restrict tax to state-only.

Attempted solution: Configure a tax override in Shopify (Online Store → Settings → Taxes → Tax overrides → Add tax) for Illinois at 6.25%. This was implemented.

Current outcome: Despite the override, local (county/city) taxes continue to be applied. A screenshot was provided to illustrate the unexpected tax breakdown (image is central to showing the problem).

Additional reports: Another user confirms experiencing the same behavior and asks if a fix was found.

Status: No confirmed resolution or official guidance in the thread. Key open question: How to configure Shopify to charge state-only tax in Illinois and prevent automatic local taxes from being added.

Summarized with AI on January 12. AI used: gpt-5.
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We’ve set up our taxes for select states, including Illinois for 6.25%. However, we’re charging customers city and county tax too, in addition to state tax. Sometimes, the total tax amount ends up being charged over 8%. Is there a way to only charge state tax?

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Hello @avani121 ,

You can try to set up the state tax only in your store setting:

  • Go to Online Store → Setting → Taxes
  • Go to Tax overrides → Add tax
  • Enter the state name and rate (in your case, Illinois and 6.25%) for the state tax.
  • Save

Hope this can help. Let me know if you have any further questions.

Jen from TrueProfit.

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Yes, I have already done set tax override for Illinois but Shopify is
charging county and city taxes on top of State tax. See screenshot below:
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Did you ever get a solution to this problem? I am having the same issue with Illinois charging the extra taxes and need to get it fixed.