Law Professor Takes Another Swing at New York Remote Worker Tax

A challenge to New York’s taxation of remote workers heads to court on June 1, in a case tax attorneys say will have to get to the US Supreme Court before there’s any real change.

Edward Zelinsky, a Cardozo Law professor, will try to convince the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Third Department that the state owes him a refund for taxes imposed on his income when he worked remotely from his Connecticut home in 2019 and 2020, including when he couldn’t access his classroom because of Covid-19 restrictions. Under New York’s “convenience of the employer rule,” the ...