fun with the L.A. Times
I landed a couple nice quotes on “jock taxes” in the Los Angeles Times over the weekend (free registration required):
Passing federal laws to restrict state taxation is a tricky issue, but it needs to be addressed for workers and companies, said Andrew Chamberlain, a spokesman for the Tax Foundation. Otherwise, business travelers could face such a nightmare of multiple state tax forms that they might become reluctant to travel on business at all.
“This is a real slippery slope,” Chamberlain said. “If jock taxes continue to be applied this aggressively, more and more professionals that travel to other states are going to be subject to them. Eventually, a traveling executive would have to pay tax in every state that he visits during the year. That creates an untenable level of complexity.”
In case any state tax collectors are paying attention—no, I’ve never traveled for business to any income-tax collecting states.
Never, I swear.
Posted by Andrew on Monday July 19, 2004 | Feedback?
