svanarts wrote:
So all these people who work while full-timing are becoming residents of the states they work in?
Yes. They may have a domicile in another state, but where they are living and working that state considers them a resident for tax purposes, and may require change of driver's license and vehicle registrations, the latter also a matter of collecting taxes.
Some exceptions? I'm in a border town that once had a major employer. About a quarter of our employees lived in Kansas and worked in Oklahoma. That they lived in Kansas did not keep them from getting citations for license tag violations when the police went through the employee parking lot, but they could straighten things out in court by bringing their proof of Kansas residence.
I kept my Oklahoma domicile while working overseas. I worked for employers in Norway, Egypt, China and Venezuela, and was paid through a shell company in the Caymans. I paid income taxes in every country where I worked, used those tax credits against my U.S. income taxes, but keeping my house meant I paid state income tax here too.
That's just Oklahoma, taxes based on residency. Other states, income taxes may be base on where earned. Some states have reciprocal agreements on these issues, others don't.
This is not a good place to get financial and legal advice, not even about residency, because every state is different, and what you get here about someone else's experience may not fit your situation.
Here is one possible way out. I have worked with consultants who work through an agency, such that they are employed by that agency, in the state (or country) where that agency is headquartered.
But most of the time this works because the consult is for a week or less. It did not work for me to be someplace two years and claim that I was working instead for a corporation in the Caymans. If I was working on something in Norway for as much as a week, Norway said I was working in Norway, no matter who was paying me. Since I did not have a legal residence nor a work permit, I would be considered to be working illegally. At least going from state to state in the U.S., you don't get into that part of the problem.
