Editorial standards

Who writes this

Research and drafting are the work of the State Line Tax Editorial Team: The research-and-verification team behind statelinetax.com. Every jurisdiction row is checked against the state revenue department's own guidance before publish, and every page carries the date it was last checked. Corrections go to [email protected].

Every jurisdiction record is reviewed by Billy Reiner, Editor, before publication. Verifies every withholding rule, reciprocity agreement, exemption form and filing requirement on this site against the state revenue department that publishes it, and dates every page. That review is the accountable step — a named person who can be written to and who signs off on what the site asserts.

We do not invent bylines. There are no author personas here, no stock photographs of people who do not exist, and no credentials claimed that nobody holds. The team byline is a team, and the reviewer is a real person.

What counts as a source

A state revenue department, or a statute or regulation that department administers. That is the whole list. Secondary summaries — payroll vendors, accounting firm blogs, aggregator tables — are useful for finding out that a rule exists and are never cited as authority for what it says. Every claim on this site is traceable to the agency that made it.

When we decline to state something

Three cases, and the site handles all three the same way: it says so.

• Facts we could not establish at source. The field is empty and the page says it is not established, rather than carrying a figure borrowed from somewhere unverifiable.
• Figures that are not durable. Annual dollar thresholds change every year. We describe the test and link the state's current instructions instead of freezing a number across thousands of pages that nobody will remember to update.
• Genuinely unsettled law. Where two states' rules interact in a way neither statute resolves, we flag the ambiguity and recommend professional advice. We do not resolve an open legal question in a green tick.

The line we do not cross

State Line Tax explains how two states divide the right to tax the same wages. It is not tax advice, it does not prepare returns, and it never calculates what you owe. Rules change and your own facts matter — confirm anything that affects a filing with the state revenue department or a licensed tax professional.

Concretely: no rates, no calculations, no dollar amounts, no "you will owe". The site is tested on every build for exactly this — a currency figure appearing in any generated sentence fails the build. What it does instead is name the state with the right to tax, the form that changes the withholding, and the returns to file.

Corrections

Send corrections to [email protected] or throughthe contact page. Include the state and, where you have it, the revenue-department page showing the current position — that is what lets us verify and publish quickly.

Corrections are made in the source dataset rather than on individual pages, so a single fix republishes every page that depended on the wrong fact, and the verification date on all of them moves forward. Nothing is silently edited: the date on the page is the date the jurisdiction was last checked, and it changes when the facts do.

Independence

This site may carry advertising. Advertisers have no influence over what appears in the data or the prose, no advance sight of it, and no ability to have a page changed or removed. Nothing on this site is a paid placement, and no revenue department, tax preparer or software vendor has any editorial involvement in the 51-jurisdiction grid.