Moved from Alabama to Alaska Mid-Year: Which State Tax Returns Do You File?
Answer
A single part-year filing in Alabama. The move date closes your Alabama residency and, because Alaska levies no income tax, opens nothing on the other side. Watch for a lingering Alabama source of income after the move — that would require a Alabama nonresident filing as well.
Last verified
Moving to a state with no income tax ends your state filing obligation on the day your residency changes — but not a day earlier. Alabama taxes everything you received while you still lived there.
What you file
- 1Part-year return · AlabamaForm 40 (part-year resident)
File a Alabama part-year return covering the months you lived in Alabama. Alaska has no wage income tax, so the move ends your state filing obligation.
The two states, side by side
| Alabama | Alaska | |
|---|---|---|
| Taxes wages | Yes — graduated | No |
| Reciprocity partners | None | None |
| Convenience rule | No | No |
| Nonresident return | Form 40NR | Not applicable |
| Part-year return | Form 40 (part-year resident) | Not applicable |
| Credit for other-state tax | Schedule CR | No income tax |
| Nonresident safe harbour | None published | Not applicable |
| Local income tax | Yes | No |
| Revenue department | Alabama Department of Revenue | Alaska Department of Revenue — Tax Division |
| Last verified |
The other direction
Reversing the commute does not always reverse the answer. Living in Alaska and working in Alabama gives:One part-year return — the state you moved to.
Same two states, different situation
The withholding answer turns on how you are paid and where the work happens, not only on which two states are involved.
- W-2 commuter: Alabama → AlaskaHome state only
- Remote worker: Alabama → AlaskaHome state only
- 1099 contractor: Alabama → AlaskaHome state only — estimated payments
Other Alabama pairs
Questions people actually ask
I moved from Alabama to Alaska mid-year. Do I have to file in both states?
A single part-year filing in Alabama. The move date closes your Alabama residency and, because Alaska levies no income tax, opens nothing on the other side. Watch for a lingering Alabama source of income after the move — that would require a Alabama nonresident filing as well.
How do I split my income between Alabama and Alaska?
By when you received it, measured against the date your domicile actually changed. Income received while you were a Alabama resident belongs on the Alabama return and income received afterwards on the Alaska return. Keep evidence of the move date — a lease, a closing statement, a licence issue date.
How current is this?
The Alabama and Alaska rules on this page were last checked against Alabama Department of Revenue and Alaska Department of Revenue — Tax Division on 2026-08-07. We re-check the full grid every December after state legislative sessions close, and re-check the convenience-of-the-employer states quarterly because that is where the rules move fastest.
Sources
Every fact above comes from the revenue department that publishes the rule. We do not cite secondary summaries, and we do not restate a figure we could not find at source.
- Alabama Department of Revenue — individual income taxaccessed 2026-08-07
- Alaska Department of Revenue — Tax Division — individual income taxaccessed 2026-08-07