Employees Puzzle Out Taxes as Work From ‘Home’ Becomes Anywhere

When Arlo Hanlin Hemphill’s lease was up this fall he took his work on the road, attending virtual meetings as he traveled everywhere from the Ozark Mountains to the Chihuahuan Desert.

His working and camping journey continues today across the states, but the senior ocean campaigner for Greenpeace is paying taxes only in one of them: Maryland.

“I just walked away,” said Hemphill, who lived and worked alone from a Baltimore row house during the coronavirus pandemic’s first eight months.

The pandemic has spurred millions of Americans to do the same and temporarily relocate in search of cheaper digs, smaller ...