Thank you Tom, this gives me some peace of mind!
What might make my situation a little unusual is that my employer is refusing to update employees' state withholding to reflect the state those employees moved to outside CA. My employer says that these moves were intended to be temporary, and is likely expecting most employees to return to CA.
There is a chance that I will be allowed to transfer to a WA-based office of my current employer after September 2021, but that's not a guarantee from my employer's perspective.
If my employer insists that the moves are temporary, but my wife and I truly have no intention of going back to CA, whether I stay with this employer or not, does that change anything?
My concern is that when we go to file our 2021 taxes (in 2022) we'll be doing the same thing all over again, attempting to reclaim the portion of CA taxes that are still being taken out of our paychecks to this day.
