State Taxes, Remote Working, New York

Remote Work Challenges After New York Tax Appeals Tribunal Upholds Income Tax “Convenience Rule”

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 7/14/2025

In an opinion issued on May 15, 2025, the State of New York Tax Appeals Tribunal, the highest administrative forum for state tax appeals, upheld the application of the state’s income tax “convenience rule” imposing New York...more

Employer to Nonresident Employee: “You Cannot Work in New York”; New York to Employee: “We Will Tax You Anyway”

Rivkin Radler LLP on 1/22/2025

You are probably aware that many employers are discarding the fully flexible, remote work policies that were forced upon them – as “nonessential” businesses – during the COVID-19 pandemic[i] and which they retained as an...more

New York Tax Continues to Inconvenience Nonresidents Working Remotely

Rivkin Radler LLP on 9/26/2024

Last Friday, New York’s Governor Hochul delivered the following remarks at the annual meeting of the Business Council of New York State:“Someone asked me today, are we going to raise income taxes? I said, ‘I’m not raising...more

New York’s Convenience of the Employer Rule – New Jersey and Connecticut Respond

Rivkin Radler LLP on 3/1/2023

History is replete with examples of leaders who chose to battle, or who were forced into defending against, enemies on two fronts. Rarely did it end well for the combatant that occupied the middle ground. In a sense, New...more

Statutory Residence in New York: Time to Rethink the “Permanent Place of Abode” Test?

Rivkin Radler LLP on 7/6/2022

Escape from New York- According to data released by the IRS earlier this year, the pandemic triggered a “wealth migration” that saw high-tax states like New York lose high-income earners to low-tax jurisdictions such as...more

Remote Workers: HR Management Put to the Test to Consider State Leave Laws, Handbooks, Policies and Taxes

Foley & Lardner LLP on 2/2/2021

Even before COVID-19, many businesses had employees residing in states other than where the company may have its corporate headquarters or larger facilities with a dedicated human resources team. Certainly, a trend...more

State Taxation Of Telecommuting Employees And Their Nonresident Employers

Farrell Fritz, P.C. on 12/28/2020

Mending Walls- “Good fences make good neighbors,” or so Robert Frost’s neighbor from “beyond the hill” says to him when “on a day” they “meet to walk the line and set the wall between” them “once again.” The neighbor...more

New York Business, Nonresident Telecommuters And The Taxation Of Wages Earned Remotely

Farrell Fritz, P.C. on 10/26/2020

Drums. Do you hear them? Along the western shore of the Hudson River. It seems that the unrest which began in New England earlier this year is spreading into the Mid-Atlantic States. The owner of a New York business that...more

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