Gear Grinding Part 5: The Story of the Broken Tooth

[dxmnkd316]

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Frankly, Dayton is right. If someone from Wisconsin works in Minnesota, they should pay income taxes to Minnesota.

You should pay taxes for whatever state you earn your income in. There obviously need to be minimums like you have to work a minimum of X weeks so you don't have one-day events complicating it too much.

 

[bigblue_dl]

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I go on work trips all the time, am I going to keep track of that and file in each state I travel to for work? **** no.

 

[joecct]

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I go on work trips all the time, am I going to keep track of that and file in each state I travel to for work? **** no.

If you're an independent contractor, you may have to. If you're in an employee - employer relationship, you do not.

 

[joecct]

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Frankly, I can't believe Minnesota doesn't do that already. Basic tax law is that the tax is owed in the state where it's earned, which in this case would be MN.. I know when I lived in Iowa but worked in Nebraska, I had to file both state's returns with iowa giving me credit for Nebraska taxes paid.

On the flip side, down here around our Nation's Capital, there are tax treaties among, MD, VA, and DC that you only pay income tax to your state of residence, not where you earned it. I would imagine our political masters wanted to make sure that their friends did not pay taxes to DC while they lived in the swanky suburbs.

 

[aparch]

If you're an independent contractor, you may have to. If you're in an employee - employer relationship, you do not.

Hockey players (well, any sports athelete) has to.

Had a friend who played for six minor league teams (ECHL and AHL) in one season. Had to file income taxes for every state and province he played in. Was over a dozen income tax forms.

 

[Jimjamesak]

Hockey players (well, any sports athelete) has to.

Had a friend who played for six minor league teams (ECHL and AHL) in one season. Had to file income taxes for every state and province he played in. Was over a dozen income tax forms.

That's why most soccer tournaments I reffed at paid cash...

 

[bigblue_dl]

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If you're an independent contractor, you may have to. If you're in an employee - employer relationship, you do not.

What I'm saying is I'm not doing it, regardless.

 

[FreshFish]

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New York has been doing this for years. If you live in NJ and work in NYC you have to file
New Jersey Income Tax Return
New York State non resident income tax return
New York City non resident income tax return.

It's expensive.

According to this CPA at least, NYC income taxes are only due if you live in NYC. If you live in another state and work in NYC, he says that you only owe NY state income tax, NOT NYC income tax.
http://wanderingtaxpro.blogspot.com/2007/10/ask-tax-pro-state-taxes-for-nj-resident.html

Years ago NYC had a minimal non-resident payroll tax on earned income (wages and net earnings from self-employment), to which NJ residents were subject. That tax was repealed as of July 1, 1999. Now the City of New York only taxes its residents

 

[FreshFish]

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lots and lots of things have been grinding my gears, because everything kind of sucks lately.

thanks for coming into work sick, Coughy McDeatherson. you are a true American hero.

hey, person with the sound cranked up on your laptop - can you not see the flashing box when you get an IM? you need the 'ding' for every single IM too? (although I wear headphones most of the time - this is still annoying)

CHEW WITH YOUR **** MOUTH CLOSED. AND DON'T TALK UNTIL YOU'VE SWALLOWED YOUR FOOD. I'm still waiting for a law to be enacted that bans these things.

I reserve the right to add to this list throughout the day, since I woke up at 4:45 without an alarm today.

You know, Jen [sniff] every one of the things [sniff] you mentioned really [sniff] annoys me too. [sniff] so far at least [sniff] you haven't mentioned [sniff] the one thing [sniff] that annoys me [sniff] even more [sniff] than the habits [sniff] you mentioned [sniff].

I wish I could carry some of those spring-loaded clothespins with me and use them on the noses of people who do not know how to use Kleenex properly!

 

[BassAle]

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I go on work trips all the time, am I going to keep track of that and file in each state I travel to for work? **** no.

My employer has multiple sites. I spend most of my time at our Bar Harbor, Maine campus but occasionally I visit our Farmington, CT location (typically one week at a time). The week I am in CT, I have CT income tax withheld from my paycheck. This is probably because my company has a physical presence there, vs 'working on the road' visiting a customer for example.

 

[bigblue_dl]

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My employer has multiple sites. I spend most of my time at our Bar Harbor, Maine campus but occasionally I visit our Farmington, CT location (typically one week at a time). The week I am in CT, I have CT income tax withheld from my paycheck. This is probably because my company has a physical presence there, vs 'working on the road' visiting a customer for example.

When I travel it is often to other sites that my company has. I travel to our corporate headquarters in Indiana regularly. I sure as hell don't tell HR when or where I'm traveling so they could pull some BS like that.

 

[St. Clown]

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When I travel it is often to other sites that my company has. I travel to our corporate headquarters in Indiana regularly. I sure as hell don't tell HR when or where I'm traveling so they could pull some BS like that.

If you're working enough in Indiana, you probably should. Indiana has a 3.3% flat rate income tax, our lowest rate is 5.35%. The tax cost savings might be offset by the additional cost of filing a return with that state, but might be worth your time figuring out the answer to that.

 

[bigblue_dl]

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If you're working enough in Indiana, you probably should. Indiana has a 3.3% flat rate income tax, our lowest rate is 5.35%. The tax cost savings might be offset by the additional cost of filing a return with that state, but might be worth your time figuring out the answer to that.

I highly doubt I'm there enough.

 

[FreshFish]

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When I travel it is often to other sites that my company has. I travel to our corporate headquarters in Indiana regularly. I sure as hell don't tell HR when or where I'm traveling so they could pull some BS like that.

A lot would depend upon the relative differential in tax rates. I save about $600 each year on the differential between NY and CT by reporting my time in each office compared to merely putting it all in NY. That works out to about $300 / hour for the extra time it takes me.

If you are in IN 20% of your time and in MN 80%, then it looks like you might save (very roughly) up to 1.2% of your state taxable income, depending upon which MN bracket you are in. Could well be worth it, depending upon whether you do your own taxes or pay someone.

 

[bigblue_dl]

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A lot would depend upon the relative differential in tax rates. I save about $600 each year on the differential between NY and CT by reporting my time in each office compared to merely putting it all in NY. That works out to about $300 / hour for the extra time it takes me.

If you are in IN 20% of your time and in MN 80%, then it looks like you might save (very roughly) up to 1.2% of your state taxable income, depending upon which MN bracket you are in. Could well be worth it, depending upon whether you do your own taxes or pay someone.

I'm probably in Indiana for 3-5% of my time, which is why I highly doubt it is worth it. I travel there often, but its usually a 1 day trip on the corporate jet.

 

[geezer]

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I don't like to hassle news editors, who are under all kinds of constraints and stress, but this seems like an acceptable place to get this off my chest:
1) Nobody plays a "roll."
2) There is no "defensive core", and
3) Nobody has every won a "playoff birth."
thank you.

 

[dxmnkd316]

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Yeah no ****. A playoff birth would be horrid. How could I choose between my kids and the gophers?

Tough call. (actually there are a couple stories on GPL about some female hockey fans who had the goofs on during a birth. )

 

[joecct]

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Yeah no ****. A playoff birth would be horrid. How could I choose between my kids and the gophers?

Tough call. (actually there are a couple stories on GPL about some female hockey fans who had the goofs on during a birth. )

Son #1 was born the night of a Caps - Islanders game back in 1984. He was born at 6, the game was at 7. No, I did not go to the game.

 

[leswp1]

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Yeah no ****. A playoff birth would be horrid. How could I choose between my kids and the gophers?

Tough call. (actually there are a couple stories on GPL about some female hockey fans who had the goofs on during a birth. )

Lil was born the yr Mr's team went the farthest they had ever gone. I was due and he was in some M state with the team. Yep. That is a real play off birth. (He was home for the delivery. Next time they made it that far was when Lil was a Jr. He missed all the big stuff lil had going on because he was working.)

 

[goldy_331]

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I don't like to hassle news editors, who are under all kinds of constraints and stress, but this seems like an acceptable place to get this off my chest:
1) Nobody plays a "roll."
2) There is no "defensive core", and
3) Nobody has every won a "playoff birth."
thank you.

Wouldn't the key defensmen in your defensive corps be the core of the defense?

Just don't get me started on site, sight, cite...