Absolute worst of both worlds, tax-wise, to live in NH and work in MA.
I still don’t understand how it’s constitutional for one state to tax the income of the resident of another state, REGARDLESS of where they earn their money.
Here in NH, the ownership of the Portsmouth Naval Ship Yard has been in contention for years. NH said they own it, Maine said they own it. Maine has an income tax (8%!), and they were taxing the NH residents who work in the ship yard.
The Portsmouth Naval Yard is in Portsmouth Harbor, the harbor that separates Portsmouth, NH, from Kittery, Maine.
Guess to whom the Supreme Court gave the Ship Yard. Yup, the taxing state of Maine. It just seems that the SCOTUS almost always rules to screw the working man.
Despite the commute, life is good.
I thought the New York vs. New Jersey case over Bedloe’s Island was even funnier. When I grew up in New York City, we all “knew” that the Statue of Liberty Illuminating the World stood on Bedloe’s Island, which while in New York Harbor, was actually in the great and sovereign State of New Jersey.
New York sued in the Supreme Court, and the SCOTUS, in their serene and Solomonic wisdom ruled that, indeed, as Rand-MacNalley had long held, Bedloe’s Island was, in fact, in New Jersey. But they cut out a small Danzig corridor in Bedloe’s Island that encompasses the Statue and the National Park gift shop and awarded it to New York, more specifically, New York City. So sales tax collected at the NPS gift shoppe is rendered unto Bloomberg. In-friggin’-credible. Whatta country!
I glommed onto this legal fiction when I was watching "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader" with my grandson. The question was, "In what state is the Statue of Liberty" (leaving off "Illuminating the World"). I was so shocked by the "correct" answer that I googleWikipedia-ed the topic and found the highly unexpected answer.
As far as I am concerned, SCOTUS is NOT "smarter than a fifth grader".