I live in ID and work remotely for a CA-based company. I get paid from the same EIN that people working in the CA office do. Yes, they had to file as a foreign entity and that also means a registered agent in the state, but they also have to pay into Idaho’s unemployment insurance for my wages as well which costs them more than that.
Makes sense. You're an employee. If you were a contractor they wouldn't have to do that stuff and you'd get taxed at a weird rate and have to report it yourself. But you'd have to actually be a contractor for that, if you're truly an employee then it is what it is.
So it sounds like the workaround is that said MA company has to start a NH foreign entity, which I assume is all but free, and have that foreign entity pay the employees. That way they're "working remote" for a NH entity and sidestep all this nonsense.
But it's fair to say... why bother, just go back to using the rules you clearly understood to be fair which you were using earlier this year.
