Kelly Phillips Erb, known as Taxgirl, is a tax attorney, writer, and speaker who explains tax news, IRS updates, scams, financial crime, and money in plain English.
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Sometimes it doesn’t matter. As I noted in the “Telecommuters, too” section of this post http://dontmesswithtaxes.typepad.com/dont_mess_with_taxes/global/page/2/ the hubby and I living in no-income-tax Texas doesn’t matter to Georgia. My husband gets a paycheck from a Georgia company, so even though he never goes into an office in that state, his employer withholds Georgia taxes. Majorly maddening! But until he finds a Texas-based job, we’re stuck paying taxes to the Peach State. At least it’s just on his income, not my earnings.
My bad. Wrong post link in prior message. Here’s the correct one
http://dontmesswithtaxes.typepad.com/dont_mess_with_taxes/2008/04/the-tax-trouble.html
Not a state thing, but I think my boss chose to register the business in the city adjacent to ours for lower tax. I don’t know the details.
moved from Maine to Tennessee-no State income tax on pensions, 90% reduction in our property taxes, low vehicle registration fees-Sales Tax is 7%, Maine was 5%, but the other reductions in expenses was a huge difference.
We moved from Taxifornia to Nevada in ’99
Moved from California to Texas. From taxing everything to just sales tax.