Taxes
New York’s Taxes Will Stalk You Even If You Fled During the Pandemic
To escape payments, people need to have cut ties with the city in a way that won’t be easy to undo in a year or two.
Photographer: Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg
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As far as the taxman is concerned, home is where the heart is.
That’s the difficult message accountants and lawyers are delivering to clients these days, after the Covid-19 pandemic scattered New Yorkers across the country. The city levies its own income tax of as much as 3.876% in addition to the state’s top rate of 8.82%, and people often assume that they can avoid paying by spending more than half the year somewhere else. Nope.