NY and NYC have both attempted to audit me several times.
I used to live their and am a landlord in some modest brownstone type houses there (one of which used to be our house). After I moved for good, they basically forced me to prove that I had really moved.
Then, years later, they tried it again, when I hadn’t been within the state of New York for 5 years.
It’s not like I’m a billionaire, either.
They are awful people.
Your story is not so unusual.
NYS is beyond disgusting in how it treats people.