Live in Florida, Work in Minnesota: Which State Taxes Your Paycheck?
Answer
Minnesota withholds, Florida does not. As a Florida resident you have no home-state income tax return at all, so the Minnesota nonresident return is the whole of your state filing. Nothing offsets the Minnesota tax, because a credit has to be claimed against a home-state tax that does not exist.
Last verified
Living in a state with no income tax removes the resident return, but it does not shelter income you earn somewhere else. Minnesota taxes what is earned inside Minnesota, whoever earns it, and a nonresident return is how that gets settled.
What you file
- 1Nonresident return · MinnesotaForm M1 with Schedule M1NR
File a Minnesota nonresident return for the wages you earned in Minnesota. Florida has no wage income tax, so there is no second return and no credit to claim.
The two states, side by side
| Florida | Minnesota | |
|---|---|---|
| Taxes wages | No | Yes — graduated |
| Reciprocity partners | None | 2 (Form MWR) |
| Convenience rule | No | No |
| Nonresident return | Not applicable | Form M1 with Schedule M1NR |
| Credit for other-state tax | No income tax | Schedule M1CR |
| Nonresident safe harbour | Not applicable | None published |
| Local income tax | No | No |
| Revenue department | Florida Department of Revenue | Minnesota Department of Revenue |
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The other direction
Reversing the commute does not always reverse the answer. Living in Minnesota 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.
- Remote worker: Florida → MinnesotaNo state income tax on your wages
- 1099 contractor: Florida → MinnesotaClient state only, if you work there
- Moved mid-year: Florida → MinnesotaOne part-year return — the state you moved to
Other Florida pairs
Questions people actually ask
I live in Florida and work in Minnesota. Which state takes the tax out of my paycheck?
Minnesota withholds, Florida does not. As a Florida resident you have no home-state income tax return at all, so the Minnesota nonresident return is the whole of your state filing. Nothing offsets the Minnesota tax, because a credit has to be claimed against a home-state tax that does not exist.
Which state should my employer be withholding for?
Minnesota. The wages are sourced to Minnesota, so Minnesota withholding is correct and there is no Florida withholding to set up, because Florida levies no income tax on wages.
How current is this?
The Florida and Minnesota rules on this page were last checked against Florida Department of Revenue and Minnesota 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.
- Florida Department of Revenue — individual income taxaccessed 2026-08-07
- Minnesota Department of Revenue — individual income taxaccessed 2026-08-07