MI mayors want to collect income taxes from at-home workers

WoodTV ^ | Nov. 30, 2020 | Joe LaFurgey

[Lizavetta]

There will come a day when federal, state, county, and city taxes are not enough. They will go further and establish neighborhood taxes, then block taxes, then street taxes, then lawn taxes. Etc. Etc.

[frogjerk]

Excellent post and analysis and analogies!

[Wuli]

Paying an income tax (not arguing about the idea itself) should be limited to a tax derived from WHERE YOU DO THE WORK, and not the location of the company’s offices.

I have lived and paid taxes where I lived in one state but in as much as my work was in another state I mostly owed income taxes for the state where the work was located.

Some Michigan cities are trying to reverse that logic.

If they win that argument at SCOTUS, then, in my old working status, the state I live in would not have been allowed to tax my income because I was already paying the income tax for the state my work was actually located in.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

You pay half the tax if you live in one area and work in another.

That is why there are so many businesses that are right outside the city limits.

Many companies have declined to remit city tax for their employees who live inside the city but work outside it.