The state of New York is forcing Samaritan’s Purse to pay their state income taxes because they ‘worked’ in the state for more than 14 days, even though Samaritan’s Purse is based in North Carolina:
CBN NEWS – Samaritan’s Purse has no expectation of receiving a single penny for the weeks of work they did in Central Park to combat the coronavirus. But now New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) is asking them to pay up.
Earlier this week, the Rev. Franklin Graham, president of the nonprofit organization, told Faithwire, “They’re the ones who called us originally,” referring to officials with the Mount Sinai Health System in New York City. “We didn’t call them; they called us,” he continued. “And we agreed to go and we have not charged them one penny. All of our services have been paid by God’s people.”
Samaritan’s Purse workers were on the ground, setting up a 68-bed field hospital right after receiving the call, and now they’re being held financially liable for their goodwill because, according to Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D), he’s “not in a position to provide any subsidies right now.”
So even though New York lawmakers and hospital executives asked workers to come from out of state to help in the fight against the coronavirus, they will now have to pay state taxes — even on income they might have made from their home state while they were temporarily living in New York, according to WPIX-TV.
“If you work in New York state for more than 14 days, you have to pay income tax.”
Ken Isaacs, vice president of programs and government relations for the faith-based humanitarian group, told WPIX-TV he first learned about the tax issue when the organization’s financial comptroller called him about it.
“I said, ‘What?’” Isaacs recalled. “[The comptroller] said, ‘Yeah, there’s a law. If you work in New York state for more than 14 days, you have to pay income tax.’ I didn’t know that.”
More than the money, though, Isaacs told the local news outlet he and his fellow Samaritan’s Purse staffers are concerned about “the bureaucracy, and the paperwork, and I think that once that’s unleashed, once you start filing that, you have to do that for, like, a whole year or something.”
Lawrence Spielman, a certified public accountant in New York City, told WPIX-TV groups like Samaritan’s Purse, which is headquartered in Boone, North Carolina, “will have to register in New York and do withholding here in New York.”
What a damn slap in the face to Samaritan’s Purse. They came down there to help with the humanitarian crisis because of the pandemic, and yet now Cuomo and the state of New York are going to force them to pay state income taxes even though they didn’t charge the state any money for their services. What a pathetic excuse for a state New York has turned out to be.
And this is besides the fact that Samaritan’s Purse had to put up with LGBT anti-Christian bigots while they were in New York, like Speaker Corey Johnson, who hated that they were even there and told them to leave because their presence was an “affront to our values of inclusion”. What an evil state New York has become.