Moved from Louisiana to Texas Mid-Year: Which State Tax Returns Do You File?
Answer
One return, filed in Louisiana. Texas levies no personal income tax, so moving there ends your state filing obligation from the date of the move. A Louisiana part-year return covers the income you received while you were still a Louisiana resident, and that is the whole of it.
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Moving to a state with no income tax ends your state filing obligation on the day your residency changes — but not a day earlier. Louisiana taxes everything you received while you still lived there.
What you file
- 1Part-year return · LouisianaForm IT-540B
File a Louisiana part-year return covering the months you lived in Louisiana. Texas has no wage income tax, so the move ends your state filing obligation.
The two states, side by side
| Louisiana | Texas | |
|---|---|---|
| Taxes wages | Yes — flat | No |
| Reciprocity partners | None | None |
| Convenience rule | No | No |
| Nonresident return | Form IT-540B | Not applicable |
| Part-year return | Form IT-540B | Not applicable |
| Credit for other-state tax | Schedule G (Form IT-540) | No income tax |
| Nonresident safe harbour | None published | Not applicable |
| Local income tax | No | No |
| Revenue department | Louisiana Department of Revenue | Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts |
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The other direction
Reversing the commute does not always reverse the answer. Living in Texas and working in Louisiana 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: Louisiana → TexasHome state only
- Remote worker: Louisiana → TexasHome state only
- 1099 contractor: Louisiana → TexasHome state only — estimated payments
Other Louisiana pairs
Questions people actually ask
I moved from Louisiana to Texas mid-year. Do I have to file in both states?
One return, filed in Louisiana. Texas levies no personal income tax, so moving there ends your state filing obligation from the date of the move. A Louisiana part-year return covers the income you received while you were still a Louisiana resident, and that is the whole of it.
How do I split my income between Louisiana and Texas?
By when you received it, measured against the date your domicile actually changed. Income received while you were a Louisiana resident belongs on the Louisiana 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 Louisiana and Texas rules on this page were last checked against Louisiana 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.
- Louisiana Department of Revenue — individual income taxaccessed 2026-08-07
- Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts — individual income taxaccessed 2026-08-07