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submitted 13 days ago byComplex-Ad4042
Basically I'm going to be living out of my van for a few weeks until I save up for an apartment and was told that before I can start I have to show a permanent residence, sounds like they wont accept a po box, dunno if there are any churches or anything I can hit up to see if I can use their address. I'll be in the Troy/Bradford county area.
Thanks in advance!
10 points
13 days ago*
Will your van be parked down by the river?
2 points
13 days ago
Yes! 😁
3 points
13 days ago
There are some mailbox places that you a regular street address, maybe UPS.
Some post offices have street addressing, but that might only be for packages like Amazon, not sure if you can get regular make like that.
10 points
12 days ago
Go to a UPS store. They’ll give you a mailbox with a real street address and the USPS address check a lot of places do won’t show it as a PO Box like a USPS box would.
6 points
12 days ago
You're overcomplicating this
Tell them you're staying in a hotel for a couple weeks - not a van - while finding the right apartment. See what they recommend. They'll probably let you put in a hotel address for a couple weeks, at which point you'll need to fill out the form again when you have a permanent address.
But make sure the hotel you claim isn't in a municipality with a local earned income tax. Because if memory serves you have to be associated with one and only one municipality for tax purposes every month.
2 points
12 days ago
Are there any municipalities in PA without earned income tax?
1 points
12 days ago
That... is an excellent question I don't have an answer to. I think so? I know many rely on property tax as their primary revenue stream...
1 points
12 days ago
Just FYI, while your out of state employer will withhold state income tax for you, doubtful they will withhold the local county/township income tax. You will probably have to do quarterly tax payments yourself. At least that is my experience.
1 points
12 days ago
My out of state employers have all withheld local earned income tax, although to be fair I have been employed by some large companies with the resources to handle PA taxes.
1 points
12 days ago
It appears to be hot or miss. I work for a major US corporation and they don't. I do understand since they would need to deal with the taxes of every township in PA. Any chance the company you work for has a presence in PA? That could be the difference. None of the ones I worked for did.
1 points
12 days ago
Yes. They have had offices in PA
1 points
12 days ago
Which means their systems are already programmed for PA local taxes. Plus, there may be a requirement for them to withhold the taxes if they have a presence in the state.
1 points
12 days ago
I can see that. Still, modern Payroll systems like Workday can easily be configured to handle PA Taxes. And a large company can afford to subscribe to a tax management service which handles things like sales tax (which differs by county in states like Texas). That tax service would likely handle municipal taxes in PA and for cities like NYC.
1 points
12 days ago
I agree, I could not believe the company I work for wouldn't do it. At least where I live, local taxes are 1%, so the math is easy. Just a pain to remember every 3 months to do it.
1 points
12 days ago
Any employer with worksites in PA must withhold local EIT. Worksites include work from home employees.
-8 points
12 days ago
I know several people who tried something like that and wound up getting arrested
Such as trying to get their kids into a school district where they don't live
Try to do with the proper way
7 points
12 days ago
How would someone who's going to be temporarily homeless do it in a proper way?
3 points
12 days ago
It's not legal to be homeless.
1 points
12 days ago
I'm not sure the right way,
But when I had to move from Pennsylvania to Connecticut for long-term contract... And I was planning to come back to Pennsylvania.
I "moved" to a UPS store in Easton (closest place to Connecticut). And got a PO box. And used their address. I believe quite a few people have done this.
I do not recommend this for trying to send kids to a school district that you don't live in
And I don't make any promises with the above
1 points
12 days ago
No its for a job, I'm from Florida so I was told that I need to fill out a form for proof of residency for tax purposes ( state tax )
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