Moved from Texas to Florida Mid-Year: Which State Tax Returns Do You File?
Answer
Neither state wants a return. Texas and Florida both levy no personal income tax, so changing residence between them has no state tax consequence at all: no part-year returns, no proration, and no state withholding to redirect.
Last verified
Both ends of this move sit outside the state income tax system, so the tax year does not need splitting. Nothing about the date of the move affects a state return, because there is no state return.
What you file
There is nothing to file in either Texas or Florida on these wages. Your federal return is unaffected — the federal government taxes the income whatever the states do.
The two states, side by side
| Texas | Florida | |
|---|---|---|
| Taxes wages | No | No |
| Reciprocity partners | None | None |
| Convenience rule | No | No |
| Nonresident return | Not applicable | Not applicable |
| Part-year return | Not applicable | Not applicable |
| Credit for other-state tax | No income tax | No income tax |
| Nonresident safe harbour | Not applicable | Not applicable |
| Local income tax | No | No |
| Revenue department | Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts | Florida Department of Revenue |
| Last verified |
The other direction
Reversing the commute does not always reverse the answer. Living in Florida and working in Texas gives:No state return either side.
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: Texas → FloridaNo state income tax either side
- Remote worker: Texas → FloridaNo state income tax either side
- 1099 contractor: Texas → FloridaNo state income tax either side
Other Texas pairs
Questions people actually ask
I moved from Texas to Florida mid-year. Do I have to file in both states?
Neither state wants a return. Texas and Florida both levy no personal income tax, so changing residence between them has no state tax consequence at all: no part-year returns, no proration, and no state withholding to redirect.
How do I split my income between Texas and Florida?
By when you received it, measured against the date your domicile actually changed. Income received while you were a Texas resident belongs on the Texas 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 Texas and Florida rules on this page were last checked against Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts 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.
- Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts — individual income taxaccessed 2026-08-07
- Florida Department of Revenue — individual income taxaccessed 2026-08-07