Moved from Utah to South Carolina Mid-Year: Which State Tax Returns Do You File?
Answer
Both states want a return, but neither taxes the whole year. Moving from Utah to South Carolina splits the tax year at the date your residency changed: a Utah part-year return covers everything before it, a South Carolina part-year return everything after. Income is assigned by when it was received.
Last verified
Part-year returns are designed so that neither state taxes the whole year. The risk is not double taxation by default; it is misassigning income received near the move date, and losing the proration on deductions and credits.
What you file
- 1Part-year return · UtahForm TC-40 with Schedule TC-40B
File a Utah part-year return covering the months you lived in Utah. A part-year resident of Utah reports the income received while a Utah resident, plus any Utah-source income received during the rest of the year, and prorates the deductions and credits to the residency period.
- 2Part-year return · South CarolinaForm SC1040 with Schedule NR
File a South Carolina part-year return covering the months you lived in South Carolina. A part-year resident of South Carolina reports the income received while a South Carolina resident, plus any South Carolina-source income received during the rest of the year, and prorates the deductions and credits to the residency period.
The two states, side by side
| Utah | South Carolina | |
|---|---|---|
| Taxes wages | Yes — flat | Yes — graduated |
| Reciprocity partners | None | None |
| Convenience rule | No | No |
| Nonresident return | Form TC-40 with Schedule TC-40B | Form SC1040 with Schedule NR |
| Part-year return | Form TC-40 with Schedule TC-40B | Form SC1040 with Schedule NR |
| Credit for other-state tax | Schedule TC-40S | Form SC1040TC |
| Nonresident safe harbour | None published | None published |
| Local income tax | No | No |
| Revenue department | Utah State Tax Commission | South Carolina Department of Revenue |
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The other direction
Reversing the commute does not always reverse the answer. Living in South Carolina and working in Utah gives:Two part-year returns.
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: Utah → South CarolinaBoth states — credit offsets the double tax
- Remote worker: Utah → South CarolinaHome state only
- 1099 contractor: Utah → South CarolinaHome state, plus the client state if you work there
Other Utah pairs
Questions people actually ask
I moved from Utah to South Carolina mid-year. Do I have to file in both states?
Both states want a return, but neither taxes the whole year. Moving from Utah to South Carolina splits the tax year at the date your residency changed: a Utah part-year return covers everything before it, a South Carolina part-year return everything after. Income is assigned by when it was received.
How do I split my income between Utah and South Carolina?
By when you received it, measured against the date your domicile actually changed. Income received while you were a Utah resident belongs on the Utah return and income received afterwards on the South Carolina return, with each state prorating your deductions, exemptions and credits to its own part of the year. Keep evidence of the move date — a lease, a closing statement, a licence issue date.
How current is this?
The Utah and South Carolina rules on this page were last checked against Utah State Tax Commission and South Carolina 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.
- Utah State Tax Commission — individual income taxaccessed 2026-08-07
- South Carolina Department of Revenue — individual income taxaccessed 2026-08-07