The rumors of the death of remote work have been greatly exaggerated. While rates of remote work have dropped significantly since the period of enforced lockdowns during the pandemic, a majority of Americans capable of working remotely do so at least part of the time, a drastic change compared to before 2020.
Americans have taken advantage of this newfound freedom to move to greener tax pastures. While Americans already tended to move away from high-tax states and towards low-tax states, this trend accelerated in the first year of the pandemic, suggesting that taxpayers are responding to emancipation from office work to move to states that offer more competitive tax codes.
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