Over the past few weeks, several of our clients have received letters from the New York Tax Department’s desk audit unit inquiring about their 2018 tax return. These have all been form letters, all asking the same questions, and looking something like this letter. From what we can tell, all of these letters have been issued to taxpayers who fall generally in the same circumstances: they either changed their residency during 2018 and thus filed a part-year resident return, or they filed as New York residents in 2017 and then as full-year nonresidents in 2018.
As we have chronicled in blog posts over the past several months, many states have issued guidance related to how state personal income taxes will be handled during the COVID-19 pandemic, with a specific focus on telecommuting employees. Last month we also published an article in Tax Notes State on the issue. The primary question has been whether an employee telecommuting from outside a state due to the pandemic owes personal income tax in their home state or in their employer’s state (or both!).
After a brief hiatus, NY Tax Minutes is back this month under the new moniker, NY Tax Talk. New name. Same approach. To give readers a one stop shop for recent New York state and city tax news.