TerryA
Intuit Alumni

Tax help for military filers

When military member's HoR is Calif and stationed outside Calif on PCS, they become Calif nonresidents for tax purposes. Unless you had some non-military income in MD (second job there, or whatever) then you have no state tax liability at all - to any state. MD can't tax your military pay because your HoR is Calif, and Calif can't tax it because you are a Calif nonresident (for tax purposes).

See California's publication 1032, Tax Information for Military Personnel, here
https://www.ftb.ca.gov/forms/2017/17_1032.pdf
You can find your situation in one of the examples listed in there.


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