This year, as you wallow in anxiety waiting for the tax team to get back to you, I have a fun project for you. Make sure your state payroll tax settings are correct. This is the only time when it DOESN’T feel irrelevant and boring. So Take advantage of it.

Your registered agent is just someone in another location that is authorized to accept mail for you. That's it.

If you work remotely for a company based in New York but you live and work outside of New York, then you pay taxes as if you're a New Yorker.

How does this even slip through? For THREE YEARS? Part of it had to do with a quirk of how taxes work in reciprocity states like Wisconsin. Part of it was because state agencies don’t talk to each other. And implementation teams aren’t tax experts. And some payroll providers don’t have enough error flags for situations like this. And humans are flawed. They make mistakes.