Supreme Court Refuses to Hear New Hampshire’s Challenge to Massachusetts Taxing Its Residents
https://www.theepochtimes.com/supreme-co...ts_3877848.html
By Matthew Vadum
June 28, 2021 Updated: June 28, 2021


The Supreme Court declined to hear New Hampshire’s challenge to Massachusetts’s pandemic-era policy of taxing out-of-state residents who used to work in Massachusetts but switched to telecommuting from their New Hampshire homes during the pandemic.

Billions of dollars in income taxes paid by people who worked from home during the pandemic were at stake in this case, and conceivably in other states such as New York that, even in the absence of a public health emergency, collect taxes on nonresident income.

According to New Hampshire, the Massachusetts tax rule goes against New Hampshire’s state sovereignty, its residents’ economic interests, and runs afoul of the U.S. Constitution’s commerce clause and the 14th Amendment’s due process clause. New Hampshire had asked the court for an injunction preventing Massachusetts from enforcing the rule and requiring it to refund all funds collected under it.

Unlike its high-tax neighbor to the south, New Hampshire has no state income or sales tax as part of an intentional strategy to remain economically competitive with other states.[...]

The Biden administration had urged the court not to consider the lawsuit.

In May, Acting U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar brushed aside New Hampshire’s concerns, saying in a friend-of-the-court brief that New Hampshire’s contention “that it has suffered a serious violation of its sovereignty” has “no limiting principle” and could lead to more states suing in the Supreme Court to defend their sovereignty.-- excerpt, rest at link above --

Again SCOTUS refused to hear a case between states. What are the long term effects of taking this stance? And, why would they?

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Again SCOTUS refused to hear a case between states. What are the long term effects of taking this stance? And, why would they?

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Refusing to hear cases in which they have original jurisdiction leads to chaos and eventually disolution of the union.

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