New York’s Remote Work Tax Under Attack From Closest Neighbors

New York’s economy has long benefited from the roughly 500,000 people who commute into work from Connecticut and New Jersey every day—not only because of the spending they do on their lunch breaks, but the New York taxes applied to their wages.

Now, with more people continuing to work from home since the Covid-19 pandemic, elected leaders in Connecticut and New Jersey say that tax money belongs to them, not New York—and they’re willing to fight for it. New Jersey is offering an incentive for residents to sue New York over its taxation of telecommuters, and Connecticut said last ...