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Originally posted by: Chilcoot
I don't know enough about CowboyKell to say whether he is cheating California out of taxes by pretending to live in Tennessee, a state he said last fall he hadn't been to in years. He's clearly sensitive to the question, laughingly referring to himself as a "cheat" in this thread, (totally unprompted by the way), and apparently using the skills of a knowledgable accountant to maintain what sounds to me like a charade. Counting days in the state? Really?
For purposes of California tax, a person is a California "resident" if the person is "present in California for other than a temporary or transtitory purpose". There's also apparently a law that says that if you spend nine months there in a year, you're a Californian.
California is a really nice place to live, no matter what climate you like or what you like to do. The kind of place one could be really proud to be a part of, one that's really come back from some terrible political leadership a few years back thanks to some new leaders and some wise propositions passed by the voters.
Just seems to me that a person who leaves Tennesse for a house he or she owns in Southern California is a resident of California, and ought to have enough respect for democracy to abide by its laws, even its tax laws.
Gotta figure that when Mrs. Kell says "Honey, let's go home" she's much more likely thinking LAX and not MEM.
Why do I get the feeling that when you and Fork wake up in the morning you consider arguing for the liberal cause on LVA the most important thing you'll do all day?
