"Baker administration stirs up concern in N.H. with plan to continue taxing telecommuters; Mass. Department of Revenue faces criticism for collecting income tax on out-of-state workers stuck at home, but it's a broader issue for remote work" by Jon Chesto Globe Staff, August 7, 2020
Before the coronavirus kept us all housebound, thousands of New Hampshire commuters streamed south each morning to work at Massachusetts businesses — and paid the income tax to prove it, but now a border war is brewing over that lucrative prize.
Your hard-earned dough is a "prize" to the tyrannical f**ks!
Since the COVID-19 pandemic started, Governor Charlie Baker’s administration has made it clear it will continue to tax out-of-state residents who normally go to work in Massachusetts each morning, even if they’re stuck at home.
Don't pay it. Let him come try and get it from you.
That didn’t cause much of a stir back in the spring, when it seemed like the coronavirus would be gone by Labor Day, but it is causing a stir now.
Who thought the virus would be gone by Labor Day other than Trump, a$$hole?
Baker’s Department of Revenue said on July 21 that it wants to keep collecting these income taxes, probably until the end of the year. That isn’t sitting well with politicians in New Hampshire. They argue these constituents should benefit from their state’s longstanding tradition of not imposing a broad-based income tax, now that they are not schlepping into Massachusetts every weekday.
Well, THEFT never does sit well with the victims.
Say hello to the new $talin.
Governor Chris Sununu this week directed the New Hampshire attorney general to review the taxation rules issued by neighboring states to ensure New Hampshire residents aren’t being improperly taxed, and to determine the legality of these border-state rules. The Republican governor’s brief statement on the matter didn’t mention Massachusetts by name, but it didn’t need to.
Sununu’s action followed a story last weekend in the Union Leader, the state’s largest newspaper, about the Baker administration’s approach to collecting income taxes from New Hampshire residents.
Meanwhile, the two top Democrats on the New Hampshire Senate’s ways and means and finance committees fired off a brief letter to Geoffrey Snyder, Baker’s revenue commissioner, on Wednesday. In an interview, Senator Dan Feltes said he and Senator Lou D’Allesandro wrote to Snyder because of the upcoming hearing, and because the Baker administration’s approach to taxing telecommuters is getting more serious now.
A spokeswoman for Baker’s Department of Revenue didn’t have much to say about the criticism, other than to note that the agency’s approach is intended to minimize disruption for employers and employees during the pandemic.
What could she say?
How do you defend the indefen$ible?
Of course, she rationalizes it by saying they are doing you a favor by not wanting disrupt your bu$ine$$ and by stealing your hard-earned dough.
Ma$$achu$etts is without a doubt the worst state in this nation.
The revenue department initially indicated it would collect income taxes in this manner from out-of-state residents until Baker lifted the state of emergency, according to Eileen McAnneny, president of the business-backed Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation. She said her group suggested to the state agency that employers would need more advance notice, and advocated for a definitive conclusion for that reason — a suggestion reflected in the updated guidance issued by the department in July.
Ummm, the state of emergency is never going to end.
Amy Pitter, head of the Massachusetts Society of CPAs, said Baker’s approach is a sensible response to a temporary emergency situation, rather than forcing employers to change their payroll processes.
What CROCK of $HIT excu$e to continue to loot New Hampshire's citizens!
How hard is a payroll change?
Companies do it all the time!
We want to make it easier for you, now GIVE US OUR LOOT!
Andrew Botti, a litigation attorney with the McLane Middleton law firm, said these workers are often logging into computer servers in Massachusetts, one of several factors that give the state enough jurisdiction to impose the tax. Besides, he said, it’s not as if New Hampshire is losing income tax revenue to its neighbor, but some tax experts say Baker’s legal ground gets shakier the longer this pandemic drags on.
Look at that piece of $hit and his $ophistry! If server location is the jurisdiction, then every tyrannical state government can tax citizens to death!
What a $cumbag!
Oh, and a lawyer to boot!
Of course, it is the CITIZEN of New Hampshire that is being $crewed, but THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT YOU!
LIVE FREE or DIE, baby!
“Everybody thought this would be over in eight weeks,” said Jeffrey Levine, an accountant based in Newton. “These people aren’t in Massachusetts. They shouldn’t be paying Massachusetts taxes.”
Don't!
Let them come and get it, or is the employer the one kicking it in?
If that is the case, those companies need to get out of Ma$$achu$etts post-haste!
How much tax money are we talking about? The DOR declined to say, but the border fight underscores a bigger question that state bean counters may need to confront. Once the pandemic finally ends, many employers say they’ll be more lenient about telecommuting. That trend could take a bite out of Massachusetts finances, if many New Hampshire residents never resume their daily commutes south across state lines, or drive into Massachusetts infrequently.
Too f**king bad!
“I’m sure there are economists right now thinking about if telecommuting becomes the norm in the future, what does that mean for economies of high-cost states?” Pitter said.
It means Ma$$achu$etts will no longer have New Hampshire residents subsidizing this $hithole!
Steve Gallant, tax partner at accounting firm LGA in Woburn, said if challenged, he expects the Mass. Department of Revenue will be willing to take this fight to court to protect this important revenue stream. Meanwhile, Gallant said, he’s not quite sure what he’ll tell his colleagues at LGA who live in New Hampshire and commuted to the Woburn office prior to the COVID-19 shutdown. Maybe, he said, it will get resolved in time for the next tax season.
So they are going to waste more taxpayer money trying to keep the "important revenue stream" going.
“I’m sure it’s going to the courts,” Gallant said. “Hopefully by the time we have to deal with it, we’ll have a clearer understanding.”
Clearer understanding of what?
This is ROBBERY by ANY DEFINITION!
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Meanwhile, up above the fold:
"Facing a worrying uptick in Massachusetts COVID-19 cases, Governor Charlie Baker on Friday paused the state’s reopening and announced a series of steps intended to curb the virus’s spread including a tighter restriction on public gatherings. The new Massachusetts measures create a new group to help enforce public health directives in harder-hit communities, reduce the limit on outdoor gatherings from 100 to 50 people, and require face coverings in instances where more than 10 people from different households are mixing. His normally even tone sometimes carrying notes of frustration, Baker underscored that the actions of a few risked undoing the progress made against the virus in recent months. Ppublic health experts praised Baker’s moves. In hard-hit communities, he said, “Our goal is to help parents, families, individuals, and others make the smart decisions that they need to make with respect to their daily activities. One of the things we’re trying to do here is to give local communities, local law enforcement, and the State Police the ability to actually issue a fine,” Baker said....."
They are SKEWING the NUMBERS by counting probable cases, and it's all a BIG $$$ GRAB with them. It is how they intend to fund government after they destroyed the economy!
F**k his frustration, and when is Massachusetts going to give this guy a governor from England treatment, huh?
Into the harbor with his f**king a$$, the two-faced bastard!
Governor Charlie Baker spoke during a press conference on July 31 (Sam Doran/Pool)
What?
This is what:
"..... Should Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker be arrested for felony risk of injury to children for every child prevented from going to school, learning, socializing, and fostering faith in the US Government? Children might be eating too much, not playing and learning like children, and maybe every single child in Massachusetts suffers some sort of post traumatic stress, for life. Was this necessary.
According to Alex Jones today in his radio broadcast, there is not even one child in the entire state of Massachusetts, age 0 to 19 who has died from COVID. There are no documented cases of any children passing COVID onto a teacher, in the world from the same source.
So, if there is equal justice in America, Charlie Baker should be removed from office, tried, and then spend the rest of his life in prison. This same formula should be used on every governor in the state of of the union for harming children.
Charlie Baker picture was [found here].
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I can not tell you how gratifying it is to know that I am not alone and that others see what I see.
I know I am painting a target on my back with my commentary; however, I don't give a shit anymore. We are fighting for our very survival now!
Related: Deja Vu at the DCF
Yeah, his DCF is also a murder outfit if not something worse (child sex-trafficking?), and if there were true justice in American and not Ju$tu$, he would be texting you from his prison cell before they lead him to the gallows.
Also see:
Massachusetts travel restrictions lack teeth
The Globe wants MORE TYRANNY by making the entire lodging industry the primary enforcers of policy, in what can only be describes as TOTALITARIAN COMMUNI$M!
Stay out of Ma$$achu$etts at all costs, America!
Shark sightings briefly close beaches
Sorry, folks, but the SHARKS are ON LAND and in the HALLS of GOVERNMENT!
For whom the bell tolls.....
"Gardner hotel fined after hosting two weddings that drew an estimated 420 people, exceeding state limits" by John R. Ellement, Matthew Berg and Travis Andersen Globe Staff, Globe Correspondent and Globe Staff, August 7, 2020
A Gardner hotel has been fined $600 after the city learned the facility hosted two weddings attended by an estimated total of 420 people last weekend — both events exceeding state rules limiting the size of gatherings to 100 people, officials said.
They should have rioted and wrecked the city. Then they would have been applauded and cheered!
Governor Charlie Baker said at a Friday press conference that state agencies are investigating any ways in which the weddings at the Colonial Hotel, held Aug. 1 and Aug. 2, violated COVID-19 safety guidelines. He said the gatherings will likely lead to “thousands of dollars [in fines] that that particular venue will be paying” once the number of violations is tabulated for both events. Each violation could prompt its own $300 fine.
Which will likely PUT THEM OUT OF BUSINESS! They have DECLARED WAR on YOU, too, Massachusetts citizens!
WAKE the F**K UP to this TYRANNICAL A$$HOLE and HATER of LOVE!
Gardner Mayor Michael Nicholson said in a phone interview that the Colonial operators had been warned by city officials about potential guideline violations in advance of the weddings, after an employee made an anonymous complaint about the hotel’s plans to the city’s Board of Health. Employees also reached out to the state Department of Labor Standards.
How hope that f**Ker lose their job or is flat-out f**king fired!
What a GOOD EAST GERMAN!!
Nicholson said the city could not sanction the hotel operator before the two events were held. Under COVID guidelines, it could only cite the facility once it was confirmed that the events had taken place and were not in compliance with state rules.
The first wedding was attended by an estimated 240 people and the hotel deployed some 70 people to work the event, which was held outside underneath a tent on the hotel’s grounds, the mayor said, citing city and state reports. The second wedding drew an estimated 180 people and 20 employees in the same outdoor, tented environment, the mayor said, also citing those reports.
The events were OUTSIDE where spread is WAY LESS?
WTF?
“People are just confused. I don’t think it was deliberate, a person saying we are just not going to follow the guidelines,” Nicholson said. “We are certainly not pleased with the situation.”
Still, the city’s Board of Health concluded the gatherings violated COVID-19 safety guidelines imposed by the Baker administration, leaving the city with no choice but to impose the maximum civil fine allowable for local governments.
Oh, they had NO CHOICE, huh?
Folks, this is a $HAKEDOWN akin to ORGANIZED CRIME!
You have a CRIMINAL GOVERNMENT, Gardner.
“I can tell you that this is something that I and all of our health officials hope we never have to deal with again,’' said Nicholson, who was sworn into office three weeks ago following a special election.
He just proved that TYRANTS come at ALL LEVELS of GOVERNMENT!
The Colonial Hotel, in a brief statement Friday, denied any violations.
“The hotel, as previously stated always has been and will continue to be in compliance with all local and state rules and regulations,” the statement said. “We have requested a meeting with the local boards to discuss the fines at their earliest convenience. There are NO COVID transmissions that we are aware of.”
That doesn't matter as they bend over backwards!
According to the board officials, the Colonial acknowledged it had received a formal warning ahead of the events and gave the town “an assurance that they would adhere to the guidelines to the best of their ability,” however, the statement said, “following the event, we received notification that the number of attendees at the wedding exceeded the maximum allowable guests per current COVID-19 safety guidelines. We were also informed that there was a second event that took place at the venue the following day that exceeded maximum capacity.”
The Gardner Board of Health said its inquiry is ongoing and Nicholson noted that COVID-19 rules in effect last weekend required the wearing of masks and banned the use of dance floors or bars at private events. “The City has not received a formal, written complaint regarding the bar, dance floor, or mask violations at this time,’' the board said. “If we receive other complaints, we will certainly investigate those as they come in.”
This is WAY BEHIND the MYTHICAL COVID that produces a 99.98% survival rate, folks!
The 112-room hotel bills itself on its website as “one of Central Massachusetts’ most romantic hotels & wedding venues” and says it hosts around 100 nuptials and corporate events every year.
Not anymore.
“This casual venue attracts guests from Massachusetts & Southern New Hampshire on wedding weekends, and business travelers from Tyco International throughout the week,” the site says.
If you are from New Hampshire, cancel your booking and go somewhere else.
If I have to tell you why, return to the top of this post.
The hotel has had other recent issues related to events, as well.
Attorney General Maura Healey’s office confirmed Friday that it has received eight complaints regarding refunds for deposits on canceled events at the Colonial, and that the office has contacted the venue to learn more.
The hotel didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on the complaints fielded by Healey’s office.
If it were me, I would tell the Globe caller to f**k off, and I gue$$ the Gradner wedding were not a big enough grandstand for her.
So much for the $y$temic sexism and racism we are suffering under, huh?
If we really were, she wouldn't be anywhere near that job.
The state has limited outdoor gatherings in “enclosed, permitted, or leased spaces” to 25 percent of permitted occupancy, or eight people per 1,000 square feet of space, but never more than 100 persons in a single space.
Baker announced Friday that, due to concerns that the coronavirus may be on the upswing, he was cutting that limit to 50 persons, effective Tuesday.
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Time for them to hear Hell's Bells!!
