New York slaps income tax on Christian volunteers that ran COVID-19 field hospital
When COVID-19 struck New York harder than any other state in America, the Christian charity Samaritan’s Purse organized volunteers to establish a field hospital to help those in need. Now New York officials are attempting to charge the organization for what it gave the state.
At the request of Mount Sinai Health System, Samaritan’s Purse set up the 68-bed field hospital in New York City’s Central Park and had more than 60 medical professionals working to care for the sick. The hospital, which ultimately served more than 300 patients, closed down after more than a month in consultation with Mount Sinai over patient load.
Yet the residents of other states who temporarily relocated to help out New Yorkers are now being made to pay income taxes, PIX 11 reported. At issue is a provision of New York law that requires anyone working in the state for more than 14 days to pay state income taxes – regardless of whether any income they made during that time came from New York or their home state.
Ever since it was first set up, the Christian charity’s field hospital was a target of outrage from left-wing, secular, and pro-LGBT circles.
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