On Nh living and commutes..

[Bruce Dawson]

On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 09:22, Kenny Donahue wrote:
>...
> >Well, as far as income tax goes, you can't.  In fact, as a NH resident
> >working in MA, you will most likely pay MORE tax than a MA resident.
> >This is because the normal tax deductions for housing and similar MA
> >expenses are not available to NH residents.  I discovered this a
> >couple of years ago, when I was working in MA and living in Nashua,
> >NH.  
> I've live in MA and worked in NH. I paid MA tax.
> I now live in NH and work in MA.  I pay MA tax.
> The thing that really burns me is "Where in MA do I get to vote?"
> Didn't we go to war over this at one time?

This has gone to court several times and has been effectively tossed
out. When presented with the "taxation without representation" plea, the
general attitude of the courts seem to be "you have the ability to
petition your MA representative" - if the representative doesn't want to
hear you, then you can haul them before the state of MA, and present
your case that they have to listen to you or MA owes all those taxes
back to all the NH residents. 

All of the sudden, you'll discover that they listen to you. Its funny if
it wasn't so pathetic.

Its the same with Maine and Vermont.

> Adding fuel to the fire,
> Kenny

Its just a paper fire. ;-)

--Bruce

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
Url : http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/private/gnhlug-discuss/attachments/20040423/36f441d1/attachment.bin