Moved from Georgia to Texas Mid-Year: Which State Tax Returns Do You File?
Answer
Texas asks for nothing. Your last state return is the Georgia part-year return covering the months before you moved; after that date Georgia has no claim on income from outside the state, and Texas has no personal income tax to impose.
Last verified
The clean part of this move is that only one return follows it. The part that catches people is the withholding: Georgia tax should stop when your residency does, and it often does not without a prompt.
What you file
- 1Part-year return · GeorgiaForm 500 with Schedule 3
File a Georgia part-year return covering the months you lived in Georgia. Texas has no wage income tax, so the move ends your state filing obligation.
The two states, side by side
| Georgia | Texas | |
|---|---|---|
| Taxes wages | Yes — flat | No |
| Reciprocity partners | None | None |
| Convenience rule | No | No |
| Nonresident return | Form 500 with Schedule 3 | Not applicable |
| Part-year return | Form 500 with Schedule 3 | Not applicable |
| Credit for other-state tax | Form 500 Schedule 2 | No income tax |
| Nonresident safe harbour | None published | Not applicable |
| Local income tax | No | No |
| Revenue department | Georgia Department of Revenue | Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts |
| Last verified |
The other direction
Reversing the commute does not always reverse the answer. Living in Texas and working in Georgia 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: Georgia → TexasHome state only
- Remote worker: Georgia → TexasHome state only
- 1099 contractor: Georgia → TexasHome state only — estimated payments
Other Georgia pairs
Questions people actually ask
I moved from Georgia to Texas mid-year. Do I have to file in both states?
Texas asks for nothing. Your last state return is the Georgia part-year return covering the months before you moved; after that date Georgia has no claim on income from outside the state, and Texas has no personal income tax to impose.
How do I split my income between Georgia and Texas?
By when you received it, measured against the date your domicile actually changed. Income received while you were a Georgia resident belongs on the Georgia return and income received afterwards on the Texas return. Keep evidence of the move date — a lease, a closing statement, a licence issue date.
How current is this?
The Georgia and Texas rules on this page were last checked against Georgia Department of Revenue and Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts 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.
- Georgia Department of Revenue — individual income taxaccessed 2026-08-07
- Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts — individual income taxaccessed 2026-08-07