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by souterrain 2216 days ago
What state(s)|countr(y|ies) do you report as your location for tax purposes?

Working for a New York State-based employer is interesting in this regard. NY demands income tax when telework is not for the benefit of the employer. Depending on where you are working and what the tax laws are, you may be paying two states income tax.

https://www.tax.ny.gov/pdf/memos/income/m06_5i.pdf (PDF)

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> I live in a van.

>> What state(s)|countr(y|ies) do you report as your location for tax purposes?

I live in my employer's semi truck. I report my "home terminal" as my tax paying state, using my son's apartment in that state as a mailing address. I pay taxes in that state.

Other truckers maintain an actual physical residence of their own. But there are many like me. It's sort of like living in an RV, wrt taxes.

Really, if you’re a contractor and if the local and state governments have f*cked up the housing market as badly as they have in much of California, badly enough that you have to live in a van, I don’t believe that they are morally entitled to capture even a dime of the value of your labour in income taxes.

Screw ‘em.