You have got to be kidding me. If I already don't pay enough taxes, now I have to put up with this BS.

Beginning with Pay Period Six (pay dates 5/24/2009 – 6/20/2009 check date 6/8/2009) crewmembers domiciled in
Louisville will need to be in compliance with the Jefferson County Occupational Tax law. All employees working
in Jefferson County are subject to the Jefferson County Occupational tax on 100% of their gross wages. All wages
will be taxed at one of two rates, County resident (based on zip+4) 2.20%, Non-County resident 1.45%.

 

What was that whole "taxation without representation" thing again??? At least you get to vote in Louisville.

"We don't need no stinkin Constitution."

 

No, I don't live in KY, so I don't vote in Louisville.

 

Could this be someone's way of getting folks to bid to PANC How long before everybody has to file a KY state return? Heck, why not a GA state return too, isn't the company HQ there, that ought to be a good enough reason to tax the employees of said company?

Homebasing looks better everyday

 

In the past, there was a form you could file (with Flight Payroll) called a Jefferson County Tax Pass-Through form. It allowed you to claim less than 100% of the time worked in Jefferson County, and reduce the tax proportionally. If you claimed only 5% of the time worked in Jefferson County (which is a realistic percentage for a UPS pilot), the tax was relatively insignificant. Is this not going to be allowed anymore?

 

Interestingly (coincidentally?) FedEx was recently on an "official home of record" rant. They blamed it on the IRS? Maybe the IRS is cracking down?

 

This isn't an IRS thing. It's a State/City thing. I guess with an almost 9% unemployment rate nationwide, states and cities are looking for as much taxation as they can get to make up for their shortfall. I wonder if someone lives in a state that has a state or city payroll tax, will Louisville take that into account as it applies its occupational tax? Probably not. That sucks!

JJ

 

FYI... I copied this from the Jefferson County Pass-Through form. Unless something has changed with the tax law that I don't know about, you can submit this form to UPS Payroll and reduce your tax from 100% to the amount proportional to the time you spend working in Jefferson County (which, for a pilot, is very little).

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JEFFERSON COUNTY KENTUCKY OCCUPATIONAL TAX PERCENTAGE OF WORK STATEMENT (“PASS-THROUGH”)

All employees working in Jefferson County, Ky are subject to the Jefferson County occupational tax on all wages. This tax is assessed based on the amount of time you work in Jefferson county and your residential status.

Your residential status is determined from your primary resident address in the Human Resources system. The percentage of time worked in Jefferson County is defaulted to 100% for all employees who are assigned to a Jefferson County work location address. This percentage is known as the pass-thru.

You may reduce the 100% by the amount of time you spend working outside Jefferson County, KY. To do this, please indicate the percent of working days that are spent working within Jefferson County, KY.

________________Percent of my working time is spent within Jefferson County.
(Indicate percent above)

EMPLOYEE STATEMENT
I request that occupational tax be deducted from my wages according to the above percentage. If my status changes, I understand that it is my responsibility to notify UPS Payroll immediately, and to complete a new employee statement.

I hereby certify that to the best of my knowledge, the information stated above is true and accurate and can be supported in a tax audit.


________________________________ ________________
EMPLOYEE SIGNATURE DATE

 

On the UPS Flight Ops website, there is a detailed memo about the tax.

The very first sentence states "crewmembers living in the State of Kentucky will need to be in compliance with the Jefferson County........."


Based on the memo I assume this whole thing is not applicable to out-of-state folks?

 

Even if you are based in the county, not many of you spend much of your time working in the county - if you consider that you are paid based on block or duty rig and only an hour or so of each trip is in the county. Seems like you should be able to justify putting 5% or so of your time is spent working in the county (making 95% of your wages exempt).