State Tax Issue

I was leased to Prime w/ my own truck (12+ yrs) and I was in a similar situation. One particular year, I received a letter from MO that they had a record indicating of me / my truck being employed w/ MO company paying me excess gross amount for that yr but that I have not filed w/ the state of MO. There was a check off sheet indicating if I was willing to file or whether I was exempt or not and what the reasoning for it was. I call the number on the letter and explained what my situation was w/ the MO based company and that I already filed w/ my home state of NY. They instructed me to check off the exempted part but put in on writing on the same paper as to the reasoning for it and mail it in. I was never bothered by them again.

 

I am a leased owner.

In the past, I have been leased to Illinois companies and no problems. I am a resident of Illinois.

Since 2003, I have been leased to an Indiana Company. I am licensed in Illinois. I pay taxes in Illinois, not Indiana.

The scenarios I listed were as an employee who resided in a state and would work daily in another state. This is not for truck drivers.

I have a friend who was a company driver in Illinois and worked for a Kansas City MO area trucking company. He paid income taxes to Illinois, not Missouri.

 

Like many laws, that law redefines words from their normal meaning. It has another provision which (after bouncing you to another, unrelated law) says that, in section 14503, the word employee means both an employee and a contractor.

BTW: There's a whole forum devoted to trucker tax issues.