I haven't been inside NYS for over seven months, and haven't called it my residence for 15 months, and my blood boils knowing I wasted 2 days on hold, looking through my records nervously because they gaslit me into believing I'm a tax cheat. At
14:38 I started to wonder, maybe I am a tax cheat.... but I have the books right next to me, with my tax returns, and certified mail mailing receipts showing they received them. My bank has copies of the checks they deposited from those returns. That is by far the worst part of this process, you start to doubt yourself. If there is this much resistance, maybe I'M the criminal. I got close to no work done these past two days because of this. I live 1700 miles away, I started a fresh business, but it never ends. Here's what kills me. It isn't that they took me to court, mailed all of their correspondence to an address in a state I had never been to, or placed a lien and a warrant on me for unpaid taxes. It's that they were depositing the fucking checks from those tax returns the entire time. I paid my taxes this entire time. They accepted my money without question or concern. It will take ages for this lien/warrant to be scrubbed from my record, time during which any lender or creditor who looks at me will think I'm a degenerate with decade old unpaid tax bills. At the end of the day, people will say I left the state because I'm a "right wing grifter" or something rather than because of the state's own actions where NY does their best to push honest people out. They never apologize for how their mistakes or incompetence cost honest people time & money.