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Come to New York! We're rolling in so much finance money we don't need to hit up small businesses.
NYC has the most outrageous taxes in the country. You might as well be in France giving up 75%.
I don't have the energy to find which state would give me the best deal, but I seriously doubt it's NY. :-)
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NYC has the most outrageous taxes in the country. You might as well be in France giving up 75%.
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But then again there might be some tax magic I'm missing.
As a business owner this crap terrifies me. Washington State was looking at changing their tax code retroactively to get more money from Microsoft, luckily level heads (and I might presume, extensive lobbying) prevailed. I can't plan today for what yesterday's laws will be tomorrow.
To me, it sounds more like the unintended consequences of a clever lawsuit and/or a poorly-crafted piece of tax-break legislation. People should be advised that California has a lot of clever lawyers who work to find and exploit holes in legislation.
Houston, we have a spending problem.
It's got nothing to do with increasing tax revenue - it's petty overreaction on behalf of the responsible state body - the FTB. I quote liberally from the article: > It turns out that a few years ago, someone sued the Franchise Tax Board over being denied the right to claim the QSB benefit [Cutler v. Franchise Tax Bd., 208 Cal. App. 4th 1247 (2012)]. The company at issue in that lawsuit did not meet one of the QSB re…
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Your state's gun laws prevent me from ever living there.
Don't come to New York, then. If your access to rifles is more important than the tax codes your startup may or may not face, stay where you are.
As a side note, I cannot move to most cities in Colorado because I happen to have two dogs who are banned by their breed. The point is, there is way more to the conversation than just taxes alone.
The retroactivity, not so much.