Live in Florida, Work Remotely for a Maine Employer: Who Taxes You?
Answer
Your employer's state gets nothing, and neither does yours. Wages are sourced to where the work is physically done — Florida, which does not tax them — and Maine does not run a rule that would source your remote days back to it. No withholding, no returns.
Last verified
An employer's address is not a tax nexus for its employees. Working from Florida keeps the income Florida-source, and since Florida levies no tax on wages, the income lands nowhere at all.
What you file
There is nothing to file in either Florida or Maine on these wages. Your federal return is unaffected — the federal government taxes the income whatever the states do.
The two states, side by side
| Florida | Maine | |
|---|---|---|
| Taxes wages | No | Yes — graduated |
| Reciprocity partners | None | None |
| Convenience rule | No | No |
| Nonresident return | Not applicable | Form 1040ME with Schedule NR |
| Credit for other-state tax | No income tax | Form 1040ME Schedule A |
| Nonresident safe harbour | Not applicable | 12 days or a dollar floor |
| Local income tax | No | No |
| Revenue department | Florida Department of Revenue | Maine Revenue Services |
| Last verified |
The other direction
Reversing the commute does not always reverse the answer. Living in Maine and working in Florida gives:Home state only.
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: Florida → MaineWork state only
- 1099 contractor: Florida → MaineClient state only, if you work there
- Moved mid-year: Florida → MaineOne part-year return — the state you moved to
Other Florida pairs
Questions people actually ask
I live in Florida and work remotely for a Maine employer. Which state do I pay?
Your employer's state gets nothing, and neither does yours. Wages are sourced to where the work is physically done — Florida, which does not tax them — and Maine does not run a rule that would source your remote days back to it. No withholding, no returns.
Which state should my employer be withholding for?
Neither. There is no state income tax to withhold on either side of this pairing, so a state line on your pay stub for Florida or Maine is an error worth querying.
Does my Maine employer's location alone create a Maine tax obligation?
No. Maine sources wages to the place where the work is physically performed, and it does not apply a convenience-of-the-employer rule that would override that. Days you actually spend working inside Maine are a different matter — those are Maine-source income and can require a nonresident return.
How current is this?
The Florida and Maine rules on this page were last checked against Florida Department of Revenue and Maine Revenue Services 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.
- Florida Department of Revenue — individual income taxaccessed 2026-08-07
- Maine Revenue Services — individual income taxaccessed 2026-08-07