Do I have to pay non-resident personal income tax in multiple states?
In addition to working in my office 25 weeks a year, I travel 25 weeks a year to a dozen other states (spending as few as 4 days in some states to as many as 28 in one). Do I incur state income taxes for those states? Is there a chart showing the maximum number of days I can work in other states as a nonresident without incurring a tax liability or having to file a return?
Public Comments
- Are you self-employed? If you are, then I don't know the answer. If you work for a company, then you don't have to pay tax in another state unless you are "assigned" by your company to that state as your "tax home." Example: I work for Target in Texas. I went to Louisiana for a month to help after Hurricane Katrina. Even though I was there a month, my regular job was still in Texas so I didn't owe any state income tax in Louisiana. If, however, Target had transferred me there for a month, and then I decided I didn't like it and they agreed to transfer me back, then I would owe state tax in Louisiana for the month in which that became my principle place of business and hence my tax home.
