Live in South Carolina, Work Remotely for a Nevada Employer: Who Taxes You?
Answer
One state, one return: South Carolina. Nevada has no wage income tax, so working there changes nothing about what you owe. Your South Carolina resident return reports the Nevada income along with everything else, and there is no credit to claim because Nevada charged you nothing.
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Crossing into a state with no income tax does not lower your tax bill, because your home state is not taxing you on where you work — it is taxing you on where you live. South Carolina reaches all of a resident's income, and Nevada adds nothing on top.
What you file
- 1Resident return · South Carolina
File a South Carolina resident return reporting all of your income.
The two states, side by side
| South Carolina | Nevada | |
|---|---|---|
| Taxes wages | Yes — graduated | No |
| Reciprocity partners | None | None |
| Convenience rule | No | No |
| Nonresident return | Form SC1040 with Schedule NR | Not applicable |
| Credit for other-state tax | Form SC1040TC | No income tax |
| Nonresident safe harbour | None published | Not applicable |
| Local income tax | No | No |
| Revenue department | South Carolina Department of Revenue | Nevada Department of Taxation |
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The other direction
Reversing the commute does not always reverse the answer. Living in Nevada and working in South Carolina gives:No state income tax on your wages.
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: South Carolina → NevadaHome state only
- 1099 contractor: South Carolina → NevadaHome state only — estimated payments
- Moved mid-year: South Carolina → NevadaOne part-year return — the state you left
Other South Carolina pairs
Questions people actually ask
I live in South Carolina and work remotely for a Nevada employer. Which state do I pay?
One state, one return: South Carolina. Nevada has no wage income tax, so working there changes nothing about what you owe. Your South Carolina resident return reports the Nevada income along with everything else, and there is no credit to claim because Nevada charged you nothing.
Which state should my employer be withholding for?
South Carolina. Your employer should withhold South Carolina tax rather than Nevada tax on these wages. If a Nevada line is showing on your pay stub, raise it with payroll now rather than at filing time.
How current is this?
The South Carolina and Nevada rules on this page were last checked against South Carolina Department of Revenue and Nevada Department of Taxation 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.
- South Carolina Department of Revenue — individual income taxaccessed 2026-08-07
- Nevada Department of Taxation — individual income taxaccessed 2026-08-07