Supreme Court here we come.....................
A new level of evil emerges.
California will lose this case in court.
When I was considering a job in California, I discovered that California taxed the retirement income of persons who had prviously lived in the state. IOW, if you ever filed a tax return in CA, then CA believed they could tax your retirement income year after you left the state and were no longer resident in the state. They lost that case in federal court. They will lose this one.
Then watch California government howl when state residents complain no one wants to deal with them any more, and emmigration surges even higher.
Welcome to the Hotel California...................
California is an enemy country.
Not a first for CA, they got away with taxing ex-residents retirement income for a LONG time.
It took an act of congress to put an end to the “Source Tax”.
This would seem to me (Not a lawyer) to fall under the same prohibition.
If you do not live there and cannot (Legally) vote there you do not have even the pretense of representation and should not have to pay them a cent in tax.
When I worked as a computer consultant for a large consulting company years ago, I ended up working onsite in a number of different states, and having to do state tax returns in some of them. But that was because the work I was carrying out actually took place in those states.
With remote access/work from home, onsite work in the IT world is much reduced.
I am currently logged in to a server that is somewhere in Asia.
Not sure that state tax laws have caught up with these situations.
My current employer is based in one state, I live in another, our US based facilities are in multiple states and our IT infrastructure is in multiple countries.
Sales/use tax may be at play here, but not income tax.
Ok, what if the non-resident does not pay? How does California enforce it?
This is like my friend who visited South Africa and drove around the country for 3 weeks. When he came back to New York, a week later, he received an official letter from the South African transportation department informing him that a speed camera near Capetown caught him speeding and he had to pay about $100 via credit card on their government website.
He refused to pay and tells me he’s never going back to South Africa. That was 2018. How’s the South African government going to come after him.?
Never do biz in California or Illinois.
This happens all the time in California.
Yes and it is quite common if one does business across state lines.
California will get their ass kicked in court. The FTB is evil.
Long story short here is two years after we left California we had two armed Franchise Tax Board officers come to the ranch here in Wyoming to try to collect taxes. The Park County Sheriff’s Department came out, seized their guns and badges, and sent them back to California.
how do you think CA spends like a drunken sailor and still has a budget surplus?
How long until california tracks your cell phone and sends you a bill for highway usage?
I have a California friend who just moved into his new home in Alabama at New Years. I wonder if California is going to try and tax him as a resident in 2023.
I see it’s time for the watering of the Tree of Liberty again. May Justice Alito water California...
I wonder if one’s state government can defend one from such acts by another state.
I also wonder if Congress can repeal the enabling act that made California a state and turn it into a territory.