Law Professor Asks NY Appeals Court to Rethink Telework Taxation

New York’s taxation of interstate remote workers is due for a reassessment as teleworking becomes a “central reality of American life,” a Cardozo Law School professor told a state appeals court Monday.

Edward Zelinsky wants the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Third Department, in Albany to overturn a tax tribunal’s May ruling that the state properly taxed his wages earned while working from his Connecticut home when Covid-19 pandemic restrictions barred him accessing the school’s Manhattan campus.

This is Zelinsky’s latest parry in a crusade going back decades. The state’s top court rejected his earlier attempt to take down ...