Moved from Arkansas to Florida Mid-Year: Which State Tax Returns Do You File?
Answer
Arkansas once, and then nothing. Because Florida does not tax personal income, this move takes you out of the state income tax system entirely. File the Arkansas part-year return for the pre-move income and make sure Arkansas withholding actually stopped when you left.
Last verified
The clean part of this move is that only one return follows it. The part that catches people is the withholding: Arkansas tax should stop when your residency does, and it often does not without a prompt.
What you file
- 1Part-year return · ArkansasForm AR1000NR (part-year resident)
File a Arkansas part-year return covering the months you lived in Arkansas. Florida has no wage income tax, so the move ends your state filing obligation.
The two states, side by side
| Arkansas | Florida | |
|---|---|---|
| Taxes wages | Yes — graduated | No |
| Reciprocity partners | None | None |
| Convenience rule | No | No |
| Nonresident return | Form AR1000NR | Not applicable |
| Part-year return | Form AR1000NR (part-year resident) | Not applicable |
| Credit for other-state tax | Form AR1000TC | No income tax |
| Nonresident safe harbour | None published | Not applicable |
| Local income tax | No | No |
| Revenue department | Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration | Florida Department of Revenue |
| Last verified |
The other direction
Reversing the commute does not always reverse the answer. Living in Florida and working in Arkansas 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: Arkansas → FloridaHome state only
- Remote worker: Arkansas → FloridaHome state only
- 1099 contractor: Arkansas → FloridaHome state only — estimated payments
Other Arkansas pairs
Questions people actually ask
I moved from Arkansas to Florida mid-year. Do I have to file in both states?
Arkansas once, and then nothing. Because Florida does not tax personal income, this move takes you out of the state income tax system entirely. File the Arkansas part-year return for the pre-move income and make sure Arkansas withholding actually stopped when you left.
How do I split my income between Arkansas and Florida?
By when you received it, measured against the date your domicile actually changed. Income received while you were a Arkansas resident belongs on the Arkansas return and income received afterwards on the Florida return. Keep evidence of the move date — a lease, a closing statement, a licence issue date.
How current is this?
The Arkansas and Florida rules on this page were last checked against Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration and Florida 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.
- Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration — individual income taxaccessed 2026-08-07
- Florida Department of Revenue — individual income taxaccessed 2026-08-07