Did you also hear CA now wants to follow people 5 years after they leave the state for income they make elsewhere??? It's a measure, not something they've passed yet. They have gotten insane.
I wish there were a threshold they didn't care about. For ex... the year they went after me I had made a decent amount of money they considered 'sourced' even though I worked in GA the entire time and the client flew to me. (An individual, not even a company.) That year was 25k. But this year, we made $2500 from a client we had no idea was from CA b/c we were booked by a GA person, did a video shoot in GA but apparently the person footing the bill was from CA. When we got paid the 'product maker' we did a video shoot for turns out was in CA. We were soooooo mad. But we spent that entire $2500 on additional labor that helped us with the shoot and rentals, then bought equipment needed to do future jobs for them so eventually this year we'll end up in profits. But last year our profit is zero. I don't feel like spending money on Turbo Tax s/w for CA, showing them all our books, and paying to file just to prove we owe zero. I'd like to think $2500 will go unnoticed. I get why $25000 raised a brow. Instead the only threshold they offer is grand total income from all sources. How about a low end you can make from CA without bothering them with paperwork?? So obnoxious. I left that state for a reason.
