Illinois taxes crypto wallet transfers at 0.2%

A 0.2% Illinois crypto transaction tax applies even to transfers between personal wallets, creating potentially massive costs for large custody moves

Folks, just to put some numbers on this. When you move $14B worth of crypto from a Rainbow wallet to a Safe multisig, that's literally going to be $280M in taxes.
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