Filing Local Taxes After Moving County

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March 10, 2026
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Hi! In 2025, I lived in Pennsylvania but at the end of June, I moved from one county (after being laid off from that job) to another about 2.5 hours away for a new job. When I am filing my local taxes, do I need to inform the first county of my income from the second county? Does that make a “part year resident”? I have never run into before and am just a little confused on how to file these taxes.

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MindyB

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It depends. You do not need to pay taxes to your old county on money earned while living in the new one, but often PA jurisdictions will have a page in the return to be filled out if you moved during the year. The purpose of this page is to prorate your wages between the addresses. Since you have separate W-2s, you will fill the page out with actual numbers from the W-2s to split the wages.

Then, prepare each jurisdiction's return and include only the W-2 that was generated while you lived within each. The local information will be found on the w-2 in boxes 18-20.