Moved from Vermont to Alaska Mid-Year: Which State Tax Returns Do You File?
Answer
One return, filed in Vermont. Alaska levies no personal income tax, so moving there ends your state filing obligation from the date of the move. A Vermont part-year return covers the income you received while you were still a Vermont resident, and that is the whole of it.
Last verified
Moving to a state with no income tax ends your state filing obligation on the day your residency changes — but not a day earlier. Vermont taxes everything you received while you still lived there.
What you file
- 1Part-year return · VermontForm IN-111 with Schedule IN-113
File a Vermont part-year return covering the months you lived in Vermont. Alaska has no wage income tax, so the move ends your state filing obligation.
The two states, side by side
| Vermont | Alaska | |
|---|---|---|
| Taxes wages | Yes — graduated | No |
| Reciprocity partners | None | None |
| Convenience rule | No | No |
| Nonresident return | Form IN-111 with Schedule IN-113 | Not applicable |
| Part-year return | Form IN-111 with Schedule IN-113 | Not applicable |
| Credit for other-state tax | Schedule IN-117 | No income tax |
| Nonresident safe harbour | None published | Not applicable |
| Local income tax | No | No |
| Revenue department | Vermont Department of Taxes | Alaska Department of Revenue — Tax Division |
| Last verified |
The other direction
Reversing the commute does not always reverse the answer. Living in Alaska and working in Vermont 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: Vermont → AlaskaHome state only
- Remote worker: Vermont → AlaskaHome state only
- 1099 contractor: Vermont → AlaskaHome state only — estimated payments
Other Vermont pairs
Questions people actually ask
I moved from Vermont to Alaska mid-year. Do I have to file in both states?
One return, filed in Vermont. Alaska levies no personal income tax, so moving there ends your state filing obligation from the date of the move. A Vermont part-year return covers the income you received while you were still a Vermont resident, and that is the whole of it.
How do I split my income between Vermont and Alaska?
By when you received it, measured against the date your domicile actually changed. Income received while you were a Vermont resident belongs on the Vermont return and income received afterwards on the Alaska return. Keep evidence of the move date — a lease, a closing statement, a licence issue date.
How current is this?
The Vermont and Alaska rules on this page were last checked against Vermont Department of Taxes and Alaska Department of Revenue — Tax Division 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.
- Vermont Department of Taxes — individual income taxaccessed 2026-08-07
- Alaska Department of Revenue — Tax Division — individual income taxaccessed 2026-08-07