Arkansas, Minnesota Eye Easing Mobile Workforce Tax Rules

Mobile workers and their employers could find some relief from complicated nonresident income tax rules in at least two states this year, but the nation remains a hodgepodge of confusing state requirements for most taxpayers and businesses.

Lawmakers in Arkansas and Minnesota are tackling the complex tax compliance questions that have emerged in an increasingly mobile work environment, where workers frequently cross state lines to meet with clients, sell products, and attend trade shows. Kansas and Nebraska could act, too, after failing to enact mobile workforce modernization bills last year.

The bills in Arkansas and Minnesota take different approaches, but ...