15 Responses

1. I am not sure if it could be called outrageous. This is the way the tax code in NYS is written. Ask any NJ resident who is employed in NY and has to include money earned in NJ and pay taxes on it. Ask any Baseball who plays 5-10 days in NYC every year and has to pay tax as he earned the money in NYC.

2. And he is worth how much?? Typical rich Democrat, no principles or appreciation. He dropped the ball on the COVID situation & now wants to tax those volunteers? He should be ashamed of himself. I say they should refuse. Let him come after them, see how it will play out in his ultimate run for POTUS.

3. “Subsidize” state income tax for salaries made in the volunteers’ home state?! Ah ha…

4. This is the furthest thing from OUTRAGEOUS. THe healthcare workers who came to NY are getting paid very well by FEMA. In some cases more than double what they would normally be getting paid at home. Why shouldn’t they pay income tax? If they don’t have to pay then all why should any of the healthcare workers were already working in NY pay taxes?

5. Typical lowlife liberal. Steal others money.
   They don’t care about anyone job, money, health, schooling. It’s all about them having power.

6. what else would you expect from these DemonRats

7. > bk613

   FEMA is federal. So I ask you, those federal military people (who have no residence in new York) who built those hospitals in New York, do they pay income tax to New York? The NY gov veterans web site states the following:

   > If your permanent home was not New York State when you entered the military but you were assigned to duty in New York State, you do not become a New York State resident even if you have a permanent place of abode here. You are a nonresident and your military pay is not subject to New York State income tax.

8. @georgeg

   I am not knowledgeable of accounting or a tax law but I think there should be a difference between an active member of the military who gets assigned to a base and sent out on deployment/missions, and a nurse who voluntarily gets hired by a staffing agency (who gets the money to pay the nurses salary from FEMA) to go work in another state.
   I live in NYC, if I take a job in NJ I need to pay taxes in both states. I see no reason why these people should be any different (and I work in Healthcare and have dealing with the same unprecedented insanity that they have been dealing with)

9. > bk613 and lowerourtuition11210

   The channel 5 web site states it clearly:

   > Medical professionals that came to New York at the state’s request will be required to pay state taxes — even if an employer in their home state paid them for their time in New York.

   In other words, this is the same as if the employer in another state gave these medical professionals “time off with pay” and these medical professionals used their free time to volunteer in New York.

10. If I recall from past experience, the state in which you live will give a tax credit for what was earned out of state. The goal being not to pay tax twice.

11. If they were unpaid volunteers, they would not be subject to New York tax since they won’t have New York income. If all the New York institution is doing is reimbursing for travel expenses while in New York, that would not be taxable. One should note that by definition a volunteer is unpaid (unpaid labor by a non-volunteer was prohibited by the 13th amendment). If they are being paid, they are an employee.

    If their employer in another state is paying them their salary while they are working in New York, which is quite probable especially if they are “volunteering” at a New York institution affiliated with their out of state employer, then it is the same as anyone who is employed in one state to do work in another state, and the income earned (but not reimbursement of expenses) is taxable in the state where the work is done.

12. Elumshem: What if you live in a state that has no personal income tax (FL, TX among others)? No offset! What Saint Andrew is says is simple: “Let no good deed go unpunished.” Saint Andrew is just like his beloved father, Saint Mario: Conceited and self-righteous. The question is: Is someone like George Pataki out there that can rescue New Yorkers from their self-imposed Blue State Hell?

13. Liberals talk the talk
    But their actions tell a different story.

    What a liberal creep

14. > bk613

    I don’t know the legal aspects, but there are three points.

    One is in your FEMA scenario. Is the nurse actually working for the employment agency or for the Federal government?

    Two, the actual cases are more than just FEMA. As I wrote in a later post, what about an employer who gives paid-time-off and the nurse volunteers with this time-off period in New York? You really think the nurse should be taxed? My point is that in a real-world commercial situation, you are sent to another State so as to make income (or other benefit) for your employer. The employer who allows the nurse to New York gets no income (nor other benefit) out of it – it is a charity donation to New York. The employee is thus not doing anything more or different than giving the employee paid time off and the employee volunteers in New York.

    Three, it is a ridiculous policy that deserves to backfire. The tax reality is that such a tax is an enormous bureaucratic and administrative burden on the employer (who has no business or other connection to New York and has never filed in it) who gave the nurse the time to work in New York (aside from the employee tax return), and it may well cost the employer more money in paperwork than the nurse was paid, AND, will likely even cost the state more money to process this “one time” payroll than it receives in taxes. AND, of course, it is now a strong dis-incentive which will prevent anyone to do any favour like this for New York again.

15. elumshem, and what if they came from Florida, Texas, Tennessee, etc that don’t have any state income taxes?