Moved from Wyoming to Arkansas Mid-Year: Which State Tax Returns Do You File?
Answer
A single part-year filing in Arkansas. Your former state asks for nothing, having no income tax to levy. Make sure your employer switched withholding to Arkansas at the right date — a late switch leaves a balance due on the Arkansas return.
Last verified
This move takes you into the state income tax system rather than out of it. Wyoming asked nothing of you; Arkansas does, from the date your residency there begins.
What you file
- 1Part-year return · ArkansasForm AR1000NR (part-year resident)
File a Arkansas part-year return covering the months you lived in Arkansas. Wyoming has no wage income tax, so there is nothing to file for the earlier part of the year.
The two states, side by side
| Wyoming | Arkansas | |
|---|---|---|
| Taxes wages | No | Yes — graduated |
| Reciprocity partners | None | None |
| Convenience rule | No | No |
| Nonresident return | Not applicable | Form AR1000NR |
| Part-year return | Not applicable | Form AR1000NR (part-year resident) |
| Credit for other-state tax | No income tax | Form AR1000TC |
| Nonresident safe harbour | Not applicable | None published |
| Local income tax | No | No |
| Revenue department | Wyoming Department of Revenue | Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration |
| Last verified |
The other direction
Reversing the commute does not always reverse the answer. Living in Arkansas and working in Wyoming gives:One part-year return — the state you left.
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: Wyoming → ArkansasWork state only
- Remote worker: Wyoming → ArkansasNo state income tax on your wages
- 1099 contractor: Wyoming → ArkansasClient state only, if you work there
Other Wyoming pairs
Questions people actually ask
I moved from Wyoming to Arkansas mid-year. Do I have to file in both states?
A single part-year filing in Arkansas. Your former state asks for nothing, having no income tax to levy. Make sure your employer switched withholding to Arkansas at the right date — a late switch leaves a balance due on the Arkansas return.
How do I split my income between Wyoming and Arkansas?
By when you received it, measured against the date your domicile actually changed. Income received while you were a Wyoming resident belongs on the Wyoming return and income received afterwards on the Arkansas return. Keep evidence of the move date — a lease, a closing statement, a licence issue date.
How current is this?
The Wyoming and Arkansas rules on this page were last checked against Wyoming Department of Revenue and Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration 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.
- Wyoming Department of Revenue — individual income taxaccessed 2026-08-07
- Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration — individual income taxaccessed 2026-08-07