sailingfun

My mom has been a long term real estate agent in CA. A commission is simply income in the eyes of the state. I hope your version is right but I wish you luck if you get audited. Where the payment is made is not relevant. It's where the income is earned that counts. At a minimum if your going to try and change the commission to a referal fee you will have to show who did get the commission from which the referal was made and that you did no business on those properties while in CA. The person getting the commission will owe CA income tax. I suppose they could then write the commission off as a business expense but the whole thing will smell bad in tax court.
Keep one other thing in mind. Your cell phone knows where you are all the time. More and more people are losing both tax and criminal cases on cellphone records.

steve0617

Is there anybody here in our situation (based in LAX but live out of state) that can tell me what deductions (other than federal and state taxes) are being taken out of their paycheck?

gettinbumped

Based in SFO but should be the same. You will pay CA SDI. But your state taxes should be to your home state. Other than that the deductions are the same as if you were at any other base. Call your domicile admin. They have ALL the Intel

steve0617

So there are CA specific deductions that UAL removes each check. Good to know. Thanks. Payroll said it didn't matter that EWR was still the listed base which we just know is wrong. It *has* to be.

She did talk to the LAX domicile people. They said call payroll. Payroll said domicile.

decrabbitz

Fun fact (?) about CA SDI- You'll pay about $1000/yr to the SDI, but you'll never see a dollar of it if you make a claim. According to my union, your sick pay or health insurance pays you before SDI (or at least this is what I remember reading from the union or the internet. YMMV)

pilot64golfer

Anything they give you is given to the company and they credit that dollar amount back to your sick leave bank. So it only really goes to credit your sick bank, not really excess funds for you, unless you burn your sick bank to nothing.

flap

The Metlife issue is a known issue and they are working it. They have had a number of issues related to premiums, smoker vs non-smoker, coverage, etc.

It will get fixed.

As to flying out of a new domicile; They should update to reflect the Calif state disability, just as they do for NJ.

California taxes should not be taken out unless you live there.

A couple times a year they go after a pilot for not paying taxes, but once advised that you don't live in California and it is nothing more than an administrative domicile, they will leave you alone.

gettinbumped

That sounds just about par for the course for UAL. Good lord. Next I wohkd file a PDR and get the Union involved. Sad it has to come to that, but it will need to be right.

steve0617

She must have found a four leaf clover, because she got to the right person in payroll somehow and it was fixed within an hour. She's now showing in 'My Info' as an 37 LAX based F/O, just as she should be.

And the MetLife GVUL benefits stuff, after eight months of fighting and after discovering the UAL corporate family tree buried in Skynet and then emailing plenty of people's bosses shaming their underlings for not doing their damn job, miraculously got things moving again. Maybe this time it'll actually get done.

Thanks all.

baseball

I have lived in only one state since 1992, on paper that is. Texas.

I have been based in Texas, Florida, Louisiana, Ohio, and New Jersey.

I have had employers in Texas, California, and Louisiana.

New Jersey and Ohio all wanted me to pay them taxes, and some of it was nuts.


My tax guy in 1992 told me "your state of residence is a state of mind" Pick a state that you want to call home and do the right things to establish residency, even if you have to spend significant amounts of time out of state or in a few different states for work.

Get a drivers license in your "home" state. Get a voter ID card there, get a public library card there too.

In the end, I got New Jersey and Ohio to refund me anything they took out of my check and I didn't pay them anything.

However, New Jersey is a bit different. Your OJI/Workmans comp stuff will be paid there. As a matter of fact, if you get hurt on the job, you will want to get hurt flying out of Newark as opposed to other places. Their worker protections are better than Texas I can tell you. Fall down the stairs on a jet way, and make sure it's in Newark...