New York Wrongly Taxed Remote Work, Connecticut Resident Argues

New York’s decision to tax the income of a nonresident law professor who worked from Connecticut during the pandemic is “remarkable,” the professor told a state judge in a brief filed Wednesday.

“This remarkable position is as wrong as it sounds,” Cardozo Law School professor Edward A. Zelinsky told the New York Tax Appeals Tribunal in his opening brief.

Zelinsky wants a refund of all the taxes New York imposed on his income for most of 2020 when he wasn’t allowed to go to his New York office at the law school because of government shutdowns.

“Governor Cuomo effectively ...