Moved from Iowa to Texas Mid-Year: Which State Tax Returns Do You File?
Answer
Iowa once, and then nothing. Because Texas does not tax personal income, this move takes you out of the state income tax system entirely. File the Iowa part-year return for the pre-move income and make sure Iowa 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: Iowa tax should stop when your residency does, and it often does not without a prompt.
What you file
- 1Part-year return · IowaForm IA 1040 with Schedule IA 126
File a Iowa part-year return covering the months you lived in Iowa. Texas has no wage income tax, so the move ends your state filing obligation.
The two states, side by side
| Iowa | Texas | |
|---|---|---|
| Taxes wages | Yes — flat | No |
| Reciprocity partners | 1 (Form 44-016) | None |
| Convenience rule | No | No |
| Nonresident return | Form IA 1040 with Schedule IA 126 | Not applicable |
| Part-year return | Form IA 1040 with Schedule IA 126 | Not applicable |
| Credit for other-state tax | Form IA 130 | No income tax |
| Nonresident safe harbour | None published | Not applicable |
| Local income tax | Yes | No |
| Revenue department | Iowa 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 Iowa 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: Iowa → TexasHome state only
- Remote worker: Iowa → TexasHome state only
- 1099 contractor: Iowa → TexasHome state only — estimated payments
Other Iowa pairs
Questions people actually ask
I moved from Iowa to Texas mid-year. Do I have to file in both states?
Iowa once, and then nothing. Because Texas does not tax personal income, this move takes you out of the state income tax system entirely. File the Iowa part-year return for the pre-move income and make sure Iowa withholding actually stopped when you left.
How do I split my income between Iowa and Texas?
By when you received it, measured against the date your domicile actually changed. Income received while you were a Iowa resident belongs on the Iowa 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 Iowa and Texas rules on this page were last checked against Iowa 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.
- Iowa Department of Revenue — individual income taxaccessed 2026-08-07
- Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts — individual income taxaccessed 2026-08-07