Moved from Arizona to Missouri Mid-Year: Which State Tax Returns Do You File?
Answer
Expect a part-year filing on each side. The point of a part-year return is that neither state taxes the whole year, so you are not double-taxed by default — but income received close to the move date has to be assigned carefully, and a lingering Arizona source can still pull a nonresident filing along with it.
Last verified
Part-year returns are designed so that neither state taxes the whole year. The risk is not double taxation by default; it is misassigning income received near the move date, and losing the proration on deductions and credits.
What you file
- 1Part-year return · ArizonaForm 140PY
File a Arizona part-year return covering the months you lived in Arizona. A part-year resident of Arizona reports the income received while a Arizona resident, plus any Arizona-source income received during the rest of the year, and prorates the deductions and credits to the residency period.
- 2Part-year return · MissouriForm MO-1040 with Form MO-NRI
File a Missouri part-year return covering the months you lived in Missouri. A part-year resident of Missouri reports the income received while a Missouri resident, plus any Missouri-source income received during the rest of the year, and prorates the deductions and credits to the residency period.
The two states, side by side
| Arizona | Missouri | |
|---|---|---|
| Taxes wages | Yes — graduated | Yes — graduated |
| Reciprocity partners | None | None |
| Convenience rule | No | No |
| Nonresident return | Form 140NR | Form MO-1040 with Form MO-NRI |
| Part-year return | Form 140PY | Form MO-1040 with Form MO-NRI |
| Credit for other-state tax | Form 309 | Form MO-CR |
| Nonresident safe harbour | None published | None published |
| Local income tax | No | Yes |
| Revenue department | Arizona Department of Revenue | Missouri Department of Revenue |
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The other direction
Reversing the commute does not always reverse the answer. Living in Missouri and working in Arizona gives:Two part-year returns.
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: Arizona → MissouriBoth states — credit offsets the double tax
- Remote worker: Arizona → MissouriHome state only
- 1099 contractor: Arizona → MissouriHome state, plus the client state if you work there
Other Arizona pairs
Questions people actually ask
I moved from Arizona to Missouri mid-year. Do I have to file in both states?
Expect a part-year filing on each side. The point of a part-year return is that neither state taxes the whole year, so you are not double-taxed by default — but income received close to the move date has to be assigned carefully, and a lingering Arizona source can still pull a nonresident filing along with it.
How do I split my income between Arizona and Missouri?
By when you received it, measured against the date your domicile actually changed. Income received while you were a Arizona resident belongs on the Arizona return and income received afterwards on the Missouri return, with each state prorating your deductions, exemptions and credits to its own part of the year. Keep evidence of the move date — a lease, a closing statement, a licence issue date.
How current is this?
The Arizona and Missouri rules on this page were last checked against Arizona Department of Revenue and Missouri Department of Revenue 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.
- Arizona Department of Revenue — individual income taxaccessed 2026-08-07
- Missouri Department of Revenue — individual income taxaccessed 2026-08-07