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2020-05-07 Government
Health workers that volunteered to come to NY during pandemic have to pay state income tax: Cuomo
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Posted by Beavis 2020-05-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ]  Top

#1 Well, actually he said that he would find it in his heart to forgive those taxes, IF Truump would bailout New York.
So it's actually Trump's fault, of course.
Posted by Rambler in Virginia  2020-05-07 01:27||   2020-05-07 01:27|| Front Page Top

#2 Only a sucker would volunteer to go help NY in an emergency now that this asshole's made clear he's gonna stick it to the samaritans
Posted by Frank G 2020-05-07 03:00||   2020-05-07 03:00|| Front Page Top

#3 He had better pray that any possible future waves of CV are mild.
Posted by gorb 2020-05-07 03:16||   2020-05-07 03:16|| Front Page Top

#4 Labeling Franklin Graham's NYC field hospital efforts as "homophobic" was a nice touch.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-05-07 03:25||   2020-05-07 03:25|| Front Page Top

#5 Cuomo = Samaritan's Purse-Snatcher
Posted by Lex 2020-05-07 05:37||   2020-05-07 05:37|| Front Page Top

#6 Want a vacation? If its to New York be prepared to pay state income tax. You might also reconsider any connecting flight through their airports when they reopen.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-05-07 06:13||   2020-05-07 06:13|| Front Page Top

#7 basically this is just existing State law and it is pretty much the same in most States

what is supposed to happen is people have tax withheld then file in the States in which they temporarily worked and, since they will be below the taxable threshold, they will get a refund

of course in reality, many people won't have the time or means to file in the visited States and will lose the money

this is not a NY State problem so much as a systemic problem
Posted by lord garth 2020-05-07 08:02||   2020-05-07 08:02|| Front Page Top

#8  basically this is just existing State law and it is pretty much the same in most States

So Mr. Wife tells me. But it would be easy enough to waive it in this special case — what did New York do for the volunteers who came to help after 9/11? What is done for the volunteers who come to help after the regular destructive storms around the country?

Governor Cuomo is just confirming the national view of fast-talking, predatory New Yorkers taking advantage of naifs from elsewhere.
Posted by trailing wife 2020-05-07 08:21||   2020-05-07 08:21|| Front Page Top

#9 /\ Governor Cuomo is just confirming the national view of fast-talking, predatory New Yorkers taking advantage of naifs from elsewhere.

A long-held view, and one backed by facts.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-05-07 08:23||   2020-05-07 08:23|| Front Page Top

#10 I haven't had the 'pleasure' of interacting with every state tax authority but NY's Division of Taxation and Finance is as equally awful as CA's Franchise Tax Board. I think they're worse than the Mass. Department of Revenue, and that's a high (low?) bar to clear.

If they are forced to pay, they should do what I heard some guy did with the Mass. DOR back in the early 1990's - deliver a wheelbarrow of pennies with your tax return to the DOR's headquarters.
Posted by Raj 2020-05-07 09:46||   2020-05-07 09:46|| Front Page Top

#11 We used to shoot people that demanded we pay unfair taxes.
Posted by DarthVader 2020-05-07 09:47||   2020-05-07 09:47|| Front Page Top

#12 Pretty standard; those people are going to get their paychecks and naturally compare them to their own state and perhaps draw conclusions.

Talk about a clumsy, ugly political face to put on it.
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-05-07 10:50||   2020-05-07 10:50|| Front Page Top

#13 The people who paid the volunteers should send the bills for the pay and the taxes to Cuomo. If he fails to pay, seize his personal assets and issues warrants for his arrest for fraud. He asked them to come and didn't say the state would pay so that makes him personally responsible for the bills. I'm sure Abbot would love to send a Ranger swat team to frogmarch his ass to Texas for trial.
Posted by Silentbrick 2020-05-07 11:11||   2020-05-07 11:11|| Front Page Top

#14 Cuomo is the George Costanza of politics. Every decision is wrong. But he gives nice speaches so the lefties love him.
Posted by rjschwarz 2020-05-07 11:42||   2020-05-07 11:42|| Front Page Top

#15 The left's primary consideration is if a politician says things they like to hear in a pleasing manner.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2020-05-07 11:53||   2020-05-07 11:53|| Front Page Top

#16 No volunteer should stay more than 12 days, at most. F the greedy bastards
Posted by Frank G 2020-05-07 11:54||   2020-05-07 11:54|| Front Page Top

#17 what is supposed to happen is people have tax withheld then file in the States in which they temporarily worked and, since they will be below the taxable threshold, they will get a refund

As my Dad pointed out a long, long time ago, if you are getting a refund, it just means you loaned the govt money interest free for a year.
Posted by SteveS 2020-05-07 12:17||   2020-05-07 12:17|| Front Page Top

#18 /\ Your dad was right on the money (no pun intended). Strange isn't it, we look back through the foggy window of time, the 'ole man' was right much more often than wrong.

It's always smart to owe them a little money and pay it promptly. The massive refund people are the ones that get the IRS.......special attention.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-05-07 12:25||   2020-05-07 12:25|| Front Page Top

#19 What Andrew "Fuck you, pay me" Cuomo doesn't grasp (or care about) is that this is not the last time NY will need the infra dig to come to their rescue.

He's just revealed to those people that it is better to let NY sink in the next crisis.

Hopefully, this story goes viral and NY pays a heavy price in the fire next time.
Posted by charger 2020-05-07 13:17||   2020-05-07 13:17|| Front Page Top

#20 NY's Division of Taxation and Finance is as equally awful as CA's Franchise Tax Board.

As a Californian I can tell you, that's quite a statement.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-05-07 13:25||   2020-05-07 13:25|| Front Page Top

#21 Clever move by Cuomo. Budget problems - get some more revenue in the state, by any means necessary. Luring the rubes in, then hit them hard with taxes. That's the New York way, and they're proud of being complete sociopaths like this. Seriously, meanness is a virtue there.
Posted by Thurong Whusomp1457 2020-05-07 14:00||   2020-05-07 14:00|| Front Page Top

#22 ...so when NY (or any other state) comes begging for a bailout, treat them the same way.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-05-07 19:26||   2020-05-07 19:26|| Front Page Top

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