Moved from Maine to Florida Mid-Year: Which State Tax Returns Do You File?
Answer
Florida asks for nothing. Your last state return is the Maine part-year return covering the months before you moved; after that date Maine has no claim on income from outside the state, and Florida 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: Maine tax should stop when your residency does, and it often does not without a prompt.
What you file
- 1Part-year return · MaineForm 1040ME with Schedule NRH
File a Maine part-year return covering the months you lived in Maine. Florida has no wage income tax, so the move ends your state filing obligation.
The two states, side by side
| Maine | Florida | |
|---|---|---|
| Taxes wages | Yes — graduated | No |
| Reciprocity partners | None | None |
| Convenience rule | No | No |
| Nonresident return | Form 1040ME with Schedule NR | Not applicable |
| Part-year return | Form 1040ME with Schedule NRH | Not applicable |
| Credit for other-state tax | Form 1040ME Schedule A | No income tax |
| Nonresident safe harbour | 12 days or a dollar floor | Not applicable |
| Local income tax | No | No |
| Revenue department | Maine Revenue Services | Florida Department of Revenue |
| Last verified |
The other direction
Reversing the commute does not always reverse the answer. Living in Florida and working in Maine 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: Maine → FloridaHome state only
- Remote worker: Maine → FloridaHome state only
- 1099 contractor: Maine → FloridaHome state only — estimated payments
Other Maine pairs
Questions people actually ask
I moved from Maine to Florida mid-year. Do I have to file in both states?
Florida asks for nothing. Your last state return is the Maine part-year return covering the months before you moved; after that date Maine has no claim on income from outside the state, and Florida has no personal income tax to impose.
How do I split my income between Maine and Florida?
By when you received it, measured against the date your domicile actually changed. Income received while you were a Maine resident belongs on the Maine 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 Maine and Florida rules on this page were last checked against Maine Revenue Services 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.
- Maine Revenue Services — individual income taxaccessed 2026-08-07
- Florida Department of Revenue — individual income taxaccessed 2026-08-07