A tax is hereby imposed upon all persons engaged
in the business of renting automobiles in this City at the rate of
1% of the gross receipts from such rentals made in the course of such
business while this article is in effect, in accordance with the provisions
of 65 ILCS 5/8-11-7.
Every such person engaged in such business in
the City shall file, on or before the last day of each calendar month,
the report to the State Department of Revenue required by Sections
Two and Three of An Act in Relation to a Tax upon Persons Engaged
in the Business of Selling Tangible Personal Property to Purchasers
for Use or Consumption, approved June 29, 1933, as amended.
At the time such report is filed, there shall
be paid to the State Department of Revenue the amount of tax hereby
imposed on account of the renting of automobile during the preceding
month.