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Hi all. Looking for some info if anyone may know..
I've lived in Raleigh, NC for 3 months now - I work from home for a company in Florida. After I received my first pay check I noticed no NC State tax was taken out.
Florida has no state tax, NC does. I live in NC, but work in Florida. Should I look into why there was no NC State tax taken out of my Florida based check & company or not worry about it? I don't want to end up owing a ton of money..
I am in a similar situation: I live in NC, and I work for a company in California. I just took a look at my pay-stubs and my company is taking out NC state tax and not CA state tax. My guess would be that they should be taking out NC state tax, and not basing your state taxes on where your company is located (I think that there are a few states with exceptions to this, where you have to pay state taxes for the state where the company is based).
I would definitely contact your HR/payroll department to get clarification.
I think I am going to contact my HR department too to confirm this-so thanks for asking the question! I don;t know if the fact that my company has other employees in the state (Pharmaceutical Sales Reps) makes a difference..
We have been using a CPA for the last several years, so last year when I started telecommuting, I never peaked at my taxes to see what the scoop was.
Ditto. You need to pay taxes in the state with your legal residency.
I don't believe that's true. You owe the tax based on where you work. My husband worked in VA about half of last year but we lived in NC. We consulted our accountant and paid taxes to both. It didn't change our total tax amount in our case because NC only gave us a credit for the taxes paid to VA (VA's taxes are lower), but it shifted part of the taxes that NC would have received to VA.
To the OP--I believe you do owe NC taxes since you're working in NC so I would talk to HR and have your deductions adjusted so that by 12/31 you are pretty close to paying what your tax will be.
It's where you work. Pro athletes are an interesting aspect to this issue. They get taxed based on where they play their game. So they have to do a tax return for every state they played in that year! I think technically by the law so do normal citizens but if you only go to say NY for a week it's just overlooked. For the athletes they are making a ton so they are sure to hit them up.
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