A recent UT tax case provides another example of how states determine residency and is of special interest to our clients who earn foreign income. The case involves an individual that worked in a foreign country during 2012 and 2013 but still kept a drivers license, car registration and his spouse/kids in UT. The case is instructive as it outlines the items that are evidence of continuing domicile. Below is an excerpt from the UT tax code. Notice the reference to a drivers license (i), vehicle registration (vi), and address on tax return (ix) as proof of residency for tax […]
The place most travelers and tax practitioners stumble when dealing with multistate taxation, is separating the concepts of permanent residence / domicile and a tax residence. The two are entirely different yet frequently referred to synonymously because they are often at the same place. A permanent residence is a legal concept, often referred to as one’s domicile. If you want to know someone’s permanent residence, just ask to see their driver’s license, car registration and voter registration. Each of these connections tie an individual to a state, and more particularly, a community within the state. The permanent residence, domiciliary state has the right to tax an individual’s global […]
While dealing with federal taxes is hard enough, anyone who works in more than one state has a greater challenge juggling all the different state tax returns. How are taxes computed when you work in more than one state? Well on paper, it’s pretty simple, however, it is a great source of confusion for most. The rules run like this : your home state will tax your global income regardless of where you earned it and regardless of whether you earned any income in your home state. It doesn’t even matter if you were gone for an entire year and never set foot in your home state- […]
