Lying about address?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where I work, IT can see where we’ve logged in from. I don’t see how you’re going to get away with this.

I think it's less a question of can they figure this out than will they go through the effort to do so. I know two people that are doing this and they are each using a friend's address in Texas to avoid paying state income taxes in their new state. Obviously I don't endorse dodging taxes but they've been doing this for about two years and their employer apparently doesn't know or doesn't care. That said, if they are ever looking to downsize or for a pretext to fire you this would be low hanging fruit.

That's a totally different situation - OP's employer DOES care, so much in fact that the employer has already made a rule about it.

OP, I think this could work short-term, but the truth is that you actually need to appear to be in your employer's state. That's not a fiction you can keep up long-term with taxes, banking, drivers license, car registration, not to mention your IP address - that your employer can monitor anytime you are online working.

PP here and when I say care I meant care enough to monitor for the issue not just to have a policy regarding the states where you are allowed to live. If they are a smaller company they may not have the resources to devote to monitoring for this issue.

[Anonymous]

Both state tax boards are going to come for you eventually, and then come for your employer who will likely fire you with extreme prejudice.

[Anonymous]

And don't expect unemployment when you are fired. We pay unemployment tax to the states we are registered in.

This is a huge can of worms, and it's not worth the risk.