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There are several states that tax your income based on the location of your employer even if you do not live or work in that state. New York being the most prom
by nodamage 5y ago
There are several states that tax your income based on the location of your employer even if you do not live or work in that state. New York being the most prominent example since they actually changed their policy during Covid. (Presumably to capture the lost tax revenue from people living in New Jersey who stopped commuting into NYC and started working from home instead.)
> But a handful of states take a different, more aggressive approach. They use special rules to tax remote workers based on the location of their employer’s office — even if the employee doesn’t physically work at that location, according to the Tax Foundation.
> Six states took this approach before Covid-19 upended office work: Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Nebraska, New York and Pennsylvania. But now, that policy is facing fresh scrutiny since many people weren’t telecommuting by choice during the pandemic but were forced to work from home because their offices had closed.
> The State of New York has so far said that it will continue the policy despite the pandemic. If you don’t live in New York, but your “primary office” is there, “your days telecommuting during the pandemic are considered worked in the state” unless your employer has a formal office at your remote work location, the state revenue department says on its website.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/12/your-money/taxes/2020-taxes-work-from-home.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/12/your-money/taxes/2020-tax...
- alphabettsy 5y agoDid you read the rest? There’s nothing that says this is the case for people who never worked in NY, but work for a company located there. > It means that if you usually worked in New York but are working remotely from your home in New Jersey during the pandemic, you’ll still owe New York state income taxes, said Alan Sobel, president of the New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants.