You know your state is in trouble when they spend extra effort to track down people who left the state for tax money.
I feel bad for them but....Busted by NYState that will not let their wallets move to Florida
“In 2018, they said, they spent 186 days in New York, 131 in Florida and 48 days elsewhere, with the numbers going up to 164 days’ in New York, 153.5 in Naples and 47.5 somewhere else in 2019.
I suspect these numbers are the biggest problem. And that New York Commies don’t like people leaving the gulag.
If they spent more than six months in NYS they made a costly mistake.
Folk who move south are emancipated, are they not? New York city is an ulcer.
Neither did Letitia. Can we PLEASE move on from this...
Welcome to the Hotel New York City..............You can NEVER LEAVE!..........................
Kept cashing paychecks here?? Yeh right...I’m sure the checks were deposited...not cashed. That makes no sense. IMHO
Check out this comment at the NY Post. Claims that NY State Taxation will check out your phone to see where you were really living. This must be done when NYS thinks you are cheating. They cannot be looking into past phone locations, after opening up an investigation, I believe. Not yet at least.
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Jun Gilbunnie
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CPA here - As crooked as she was (and is), this is different from income taxes. The law says 181 days or more determines your primary residence. Simple as that - drivers license, voter registration don’t matter anymore since NYS auditors will geofence your phone to determine where you are. Not a case of different rules for the ‘elites’.
Rush used to comment often about the state trying to rope him into their tax havens. BTW the California franchise tax board leads the way with its octopus style tax targeting.
Back in the 1990s, I used to work with some wealthy Swedes who moved to other countries. They had to spend years planning the moves or else the Swedish government would continue to tax their income even after they left. The last stage of Socialism is not everyone leaving and the state running out of “Other Peoples’ Money.” Its the Socialist state going after those who left to try to squeeze money out of them in their new state.
When we left CA in 2010, there was serious talk about the state passing a law for “Exit Tax” on companies, and residents in higher income brackets.
We thought we were dodging a bullet by leaving quickly, but I don’t think that legislation ever happened. (We had to go, anyhow.)
States always challenge snowbird moves.
Smart snow birds to the A/B B/A ticket trick.
If you don’t know this, they buy two round trip tickets to Florida. One is, say ORD to MIA 11/1/24 return 12/20/25. The other is MIA to ORD 12/20/2024 return 11/20/2025.
Get it? They show Illinois the first ticket and say they went down in late 2024 and didn’t return to Illinois until they came back for Xmas 2025. But actually they use the second ticket for their return after just 6 weeks.
“You can come in, but you can never leave.”
Rush claimed he was audited every year by NY after he moved to Florida.
Good. Scofflaws should be hunted. Especially the type of scum who used to live in NYC.
I have a nephew who after graduating Columbia school of engineering in Manhattan got a job in Pennsylvania and one year later a better job in New Jersey. He had bank accounts in Penn and NJ and rent receipts as well. But he never registered to vote in Penn or NJ and still had most mail going to his mom’s Manhattan apartment, which he’d visit on some weekends. NY state said his “proof” was less than theirs and dunned him for two year’s back taxes for NY state and NY city. Fighting it required a lawyer (which NY state is counting on) which he declined to do, so he just paid up to get NY off his back. Had he fought it, then during the interim NY was prepared to get a garnishment approved against his wages, which would have involved his employer, which he did not want to happen.
Falsely claiming a primary residence doesn’t apply to Leticia James.
“The couple decided to retire to the warmer climes of Naples, Florida...”
There goes Naples! New Yorkers...stick to Boca.