Question

[U241279]

I am not sure how to file my taxes this year. 

My license address is in NY, but I work and live in Connecticut.  And, my employer put my Connecticut address on my W2. How does this work on my taxes?

[xmasbaby0]

If you live and work in CT, then you should be filing a CT state tax return.  Your CT address is the one that should be on your tax return so that the IRS and state know where to send you a letter or a check.

As for the driver's license......if you live in CT you had 90 days to get a CT license---so you should take care of that.

https://portal.ct.gov/dmv/licenses-permits-ids/transfer-out-of-state-license?language=en_US

But did you move during 2023?  Did you live and work in NY for any part of 2023?

[TomD8]

To add a bit to @xmasbaby0 's answer:

Your drivers license does not determine your state of residence for tax purposes.  If your main, primary home (your domicile in tax terminology) is in CT, then for tax purposes you are a resident of CT.  If you moved into or out of CT during the tax year, then for tax purposes you are a part-year resident of CT and a part-year resident of the other state.

If you moved into CT, then you became a resident of CT on the day you began living there with the intent of making it your new domicile, not on the day you got your CT drivers license.  That's because some people wait weeks or months after a move to obtain their new license.

[U241279]

In regards to my previous inquiry, I cannot get a CT license because I have to keep my license address in NY because of property issues.  Would it be a problem to live in CT and still keep my drivers license address in NY?  I have been living and working here in CT for 3 years.  But, I have property in NY in which they will not accept my CT living address.    So, until this situation is resolved, I must keep my NY license.  So until that time, do I always have to do send in my taxes as a CT full time resident only and nothing for NY state, since I am not earning any income in NY?

[TomD8 · Accepted solution]

If CT is your domicile state, then you must file a full-year resident CT tax return, and ALL your income is taxable by CT, regardless of its source, and regardless of whether or not you have a CT drivers license.

If you have no NY-source income, then you need not file a non-resident NY tax return.  Caution: if you work in New York even for a single day, then you may have NY-source income.   Post back for details if this is your situation. 

https://www.tax.ny.gov/pit/file/nonresident-faqs.htm

[U241279]

No, I just go every now and then to check on the property.  My daughter cannot put it in her name until her credit is good, so I have to keep the property address in my name, otherwise my daughter and her children can not live there.  But, I live and work here in CT.

But did you move during 2023?  NO      Did you live and work in NY for any part of 2023? NO

[TomD8]

Do you charge your daughter rent to live there. or does she just share (or pay) the expenses?  If she pays rent, then you have NY-source income.

[U241279]

No, I pay the rent until she can get a job and afford it.  May daughter and her children has nowhere to go.

[U241279 · Accepted solution]

I have no NY source income at all.  So from your responses, I must send in my taxes as a full-year resident of CT, since I live here and work here.  And I do not need to file taxes at all for NY?

[TomD8]

@U241279 wrote: "I have no NY source income at all.  So from your responses, I must send in my taxes as a full-year resident of CT, since I live here and work here.  And I do not need to file taxes at all for NY?"

That's correct.