Law prof’s long fight against NY taxes continues

A New York law professor has been fighting to reduce remote workers’ New York taxes since before “remote worker” was a thing.

He has yet to win—but he’ll keep trying.

“I feel so very strongly about it,” Edward Zelinsky, the Cardozo Law School professor, told me Monday during a break from grading exams. “I think the government has an obligation to tax people reasonably and fairly.”

Zelinsky’s latest setback came in a May 15 decision from a state tax tribunal finding New York was right to tax wages he earned while working from his Connecticut home, even when pandemic restrictions ...