Live in Nevada, Work in Missouri: Which State Taxes Your Paycheck?
Answer
Missouri is the only state with a claim. Living in Nevada spares you a resident return, but it does not shelter income earned inside Missouri — that income is Missouri-source and it is taxed there on a nonresident return.
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This is the mirror image of the more common commute. There is no home-state return to file, so the Missouri nonresident return carries the whole obligation — and because Nevada charges nothing, there is no credit mechanism involved anywhere.
Missouri also has a layer below the state one, and it is the layer that survives every agreement: Kansas City and St. Louis each levy a one per cent earnings tax on wages earned inside the city, collected by the city. Nonresidents pay it on the portion of work performed there.
What you file
- 1Nonresident return · MissouriForm MO-1040 with Form MO-NRI
File a Missouri nonresident return for the wages you earned in Missouri. Nevada has no wage income tax, so there is no second return and no credit to claim.
The two states, side by side
| Nevada | Missouri | |
|---|---|---|
| Taxes wages | No | Yes — graduated |
| Reciprocity partners | None | None |
| Convenience rule | No | No |
| Nonresident return | Not applicable | Form MO-1040 with Form MO-NRI |
| Credit for other-state tax | No income tax | Form MO-CR |
| Nonresident safe harbour | Not applicable | None published |
| Local income tax | No | Yes |
| Revenue department | Nevada Department of Taxation | Missouri Department of Revenue |
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The other direction
Reversing the commute does not always reverse the answer. Living in Missouri and working in Nevada 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: Nevada → MissouriNo state income tax on your wages
- 1099 contractor: Nevada → MissouriClient state only, if you work there
- Moved mid-year: Nevada → MissouriOne part-year return — the state you moved to
Other Nevada pairs
Questions people actually ask
I live in Nevada and work in Missouri. Which state takes the tax out of my paycheck?
Missouri is the only state with a claim. Living in Nevada spares you a resident return, but it does not shelter income earned inside Missouri — that income is Missouri-source and it is taxed there on a nonresident return.
Which state should my employer be withholding for?
Missouri. The wages are sourced to Missouri, so Missouri withholding is correct and there is no Nevada withholding to set up, because Nevada levies no income tax on wages.
How current is this?
The Nevada and Missouri rules on this page were last checked against Nevada Department of Taxation and Missouri 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.
- Nevada Department of Taxation — individual income taxaccessed 2026-08-07
- Missouri Department of Revenue — individual income taxaccessed 2026-08-07