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Cumming, GA | reply to oliphant
Re: Double taxation...
TN doesn't have state income tax. But it's an interesting point--what happens when someone lives in Massachusetts and telecommutes to NY? Wouldn't they get taxed twice?
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| said by jtanner  :TN doesn't have state income tax. But it's an interesting point--what happens when someone lives in Massachusetts and telecommutes to NY? Wouldn't they get taxed twice? Jim I live in Maryland. The company I work for is headquartered in Virginia, though they have offices all over the globe.
Whether or not I commute to one of their offices, I pay my taxes to my home state of Maryland. As it happens though, I rarely work from anywhere other than my home. I've been a full-time telecommuter for over 8 years. |
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Mechanicsburg, PA | reply to jtanner
haha living in taxachusetts, i bet they are already being taxed twice.
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2 edits | This is GREAT NEWS!!! - maybe now all those outsourced jobs in India and China get to pay US taxes -- so we can retire!  (hey - "freedom is on the march" -- better pay up!)
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Amazingly enough, 'taxachusetts' has fewer taxes than many other states (including CT), and tac-free shopping is just a run up the highway in New Hampshire!!
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| reply to JTRockville
How dare you cheat Virginia out of their income tax? 
And what about all the gas you are not using? Doesn't Maryland deserve their massive gas tax too? :D:D
This could get ugly as how many people tele-commute from other states? How many people want to be taxed twice? Or, how about being taxed in every state where your company has a location in?  |
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oliphant
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said by jtanner :TN doesn't have state income tax. Jim My bad, I thought I remembered some whooplah about them starting it a year or two ago. But still, TN gets their revenue some someplace whether it's higher property tax, sales tax or whatever. If you are taxed by another state it's double taxation unless TN doesn't collect any revenue from the general public at all.
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Just what I was thinking tax all the 'outsourced' jobs!!it might bring some jobs back. |
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nshulga
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I live in PA. I used to telecommute to a Boulder, CO division of a French (well, worldwide) company. I now telecommute to a Boston, MA division of a California (well, worldwide) company. In both cases they deducted local (ie CO/MA) income tax the first month, then (presumably, after checking with their tax department) refunded it and deducted PA income tax from that point on.
New York is very creative about taxing people, though, so I've to say I'm not surprised. I remember filling out NY state non-resident returns back when that stuff was done with pen and paper. It was worse than the federal form - they basically make you do something like federal income tax twice, first time to determine total income, the second time to determine NY income. They use total income to determine your tax rate. Then, of course, there's NYC tax as well.
The short-term solution is to make sure this is built into your salary. A better solution is to work elsewhere and enjoy NYC on weekends. They'll figure a different way to rip you off, but at leats it's less paperwork that way. |
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| reply to moonpuppy
said by moonpuppy :How dare you cheat Virginia out of their income tax? And what about all the gas you are not using? Doesn't Maryland deserve their massive gas tax too? :D:D This could get ugly as how many people tele-commute from other states? How many people want to be taxed twice? Or, how about being taxed in every state where your company has a location in? I think I'll just take half my salary and donate it to the county and the state so they can build more roads for the traditional commuters. Then I'll take the other half of my salary and spread it around to all the states where the company I work for has offices: California, District of Columbia, Massachusetts, New York (gasp!), North Carolina, Oklahoma, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Virginia. I'll be sure to reserve some for my home state: Maryland.
Too bad there will be nothing left to donate to the other countries where the company I work for has offices: Brazil, Canada, India, Russia, United Kingdom. If there were, I could help provide health care and retirement income for those who live in countries where the government subsidizes those services.
Who needs disposable income anyway? |
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| I fear them pressing this issue more. If so I and a lot of people will be hurting.
I vpn into networks in 5 or 6 countries plus ones in almost all 50 states. Just this morning I vpned into Pa. Ny. Nh. RI. Conn. Ne. and Fl. , does this mean under this the whole slew of them have the ability to chase me down for taxes ? If so Ma. where i actually live is gonna be screwed on my taxes.
Greed has no bounds I guess. Start taxing the people who are outsourced to other countries. Because then that will drive up their cost as well and maybe the work will come back to North America.
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BosstonesOwn
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Shhh. they start moving around here and rent will go even more. |
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said by ronpin :This is GREAT NEWS!!! - maybe now all those outsourced jobs in India and China get to pay US taxes -- so we can retire! (hey - "freedom is on the march" -- better pay up!) I like it! Maybe we can get something back for all of the outsourcing.
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| said by n2jtx :said by ronpin :This is GREAT NEWS!!! - maybe now all those outsourced jobs in India and China get to pay US taxes -- so we can retire! (hey - "freedom is on the march" -- better pay up!) I like it! Maybe we can get something back for all of the outsourcing. Tariffs are pretty damn bad things. Trust me on this one. We may not like outsourcing but the "simple" tariff "fix" is even worse. |
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xrobertcmx
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That was how it worked when I was in the Army. I was stationed in CO, but I paid state income tax to VA.
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moonpuppy
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Glen Burnie, MD | reply to JTRockville
I thought you were going to pay me for FIOS?
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It seems government wants more and more but give less and less. |
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bostonkarl1
join:2003-07-09
Arlington, VA
| reply to BosstonesOwn
Ya, I never understood taxachussets thing.
Maine is the least tax friendly New England state, believe it or not. Mass rates below the median of all states.
»money.cnn.com/pf/features/lists/···dex.html |
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broadbander
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Brooklyn, NY
| said by bostonkarl1 :Ya, I never understood taxachussets thing. Maine is the least tax friendly New England state, believe it or not. Mass rates below the median of all states. » money.cnn.com/pf/features/lists/···dex.html Thats because of the stigma Massachusetts got and thus worked hard to vote against higher taxes probably mostly to debunk the stigma. Having Republican governors since 1988 (in the most liberal state of the union) didn't hurt. |
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JTRockville
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Heh, not if I have to pay income tax to a dozen different states. Then again, if I have to pay income tax to a dozen different states, I won't be able to afford a network connection!
Maybe this is a ban on telecommuting disguised as a tax? |
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cao1964
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said by xrobertcmx :That was how it worked when I was in the Army. I was stationed in CO, but I paid state income tax to VA. Oh I feel your pain, but lucky for me at that time my home state was Florida so I had no taxes, now its Penn, and I am been tax big time, time to move again. |
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