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From Almost 200,000 people would stream into downtown D.C. on a daily basis before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, occupying valuable office buildings and sustaining restaurants and other businesses. Patrick Thibodeau/Flickr
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In pre-pandemic times, Steven Weinstein was like hundreds of thousands of other Washington-area commuters. Every weekday, he went from his home in Centreville, Virginia, to his office at 16th and L streets in downtown D.C. He left the office a few times during the day for a cup of coffee or lunch.
All that ended last March, when the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered most offices and left Weinstein to work from home. His company offered workers the chance to come back in the summer; not many did. By the end of the year, he says, the company decided not to renew its lease.
From D.C. Councilmember Elissa Silverman (center) is expected to introduce a bill that would exempt unemployment benefits from D.C. income taxes next year. Suzannah Hoover for /WAMU/DCist
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D.C. residents forced out of work suddenly by COVID-19 could be in for another unpleasant surprise this year: a large tax bill.
That s because unemployment benefits the sole source of income for many city residents during the crisis are not exempt from federal or D.C. income taxes. Come April 15, recipients who didn t opt to withhold taxes from their benefits will have to pay a tax bill they may not have planned for.