[Alberta's Child]

Anyone who has commuted for work from one state to another has been dealing with this for years.

Yes, there are cases where "taxation without representation" is legitimate. Income taxes are paid in the jurisdiction where you work, regardless of whether you live there or not.

[no-s]

there are cases where "taxation without representation" is legitimate. Income taxes are paid in the jurisdiction where you work, regardless of whether you live there or not.

While it happens, and it's legal, it still smarts because, well, you have no representation.

[Ancesthntr]

“Yes, there are cases where “taxation without representation” is legitimate. Income taxes are paid in the jurisdiction where you work, regardless of whether you live there or not.”

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I was in that situation - I lived in NJ, but worked in NYC. I got to pay both NYS and NYC, and had a tax credit in NJ for what I paid to those two (greedy, shithole) jurisdictions.

But I ACTUALLY worked in NYC. Whenever I worked at a client in NJ, I was able to apportion a part of my compensation to NJ, and to thus pay a slightly lower rate. If I had stayed home and tele-commuted (not that there was such a thing back in the late ‘80s), I wouldn’t have paid NYC/NYS tax...despite the check coming from a NYC company.

What’s different now? You don’t work in a state, you don’t benefit from their laws or the protection (physical and legal) that they give people working there, then you don’t have to pay.