What state(s)|countr(y|ies) do you report as your location for tax purposes?
Working for a New York State-based employer is interesting in this regard. NY demands income tax when telework is not for the benefit of the employer. Depending on where you are working and what the tax laws are, you may be paying two states income tax.
>> What state(s)|countr(y|ies) do you report as your location for tax purposes?
I live in my employer's semi truck. I report my "home terminal" as my tax paying state, using my son's apartment in that state as a mailing address. I pay taxes in that state.
Other truckers maintain an actual physical residence of their own. But there are many like me. It's sort of like living in an RV, wrt taxes.
Really, if you’re a contractor and if the local and state governments have f*cked up the housing market as badly as they have in much of California, badly enough that you have to live in a van, I don’t believe that they are morally entitled to capture even a dime of the value of your labour in income taxes.
For example, at the country level, I'm currently working remotely from Spain. If I stay here longer than around 6 months, I'm considered a tax resident and then I should pay taxes.
If you're planning to start working remotely from another country, you should know that the USA requires US Citizens to pay taxes anywhere they live. You should also know that some states require you to pay taxes wherever you live. For example, California has the highest state income tax in the USA, and it (tries) to tax CA residents even when they are not in the state. If you leave your nice Palo Alto apartment to work remotely for Facebook from Da Nang in Vietnam, you'll be paying USA taxes, and possibly California taxes.
If you don't know what terms like bona fide resident & physical presence test are, it is (in my opinion) very much worth talking to a talk professional to understand what your tax liabilities are if you intend to change your physical location to work remotely.
If you wanna go down the rabbit hole, start by looking up the foreign earned income exclusion.
You have to pay taxes in whatever state your van is located. If you work in multiple states, you have to pay taxes in multiple states. Athletes have to pay taxes in every state they play. If they played in one game per state in 25 states. They have to file 25 different state tax returns.
