Live in Tennessee, Work in Nevada: Which State Taxes Your Paycheck?
Answer
Nothing is withheld and nothing is filed. Wage income escapes state tax on both sides of this pair: Tennessee levies none as your home state, and Nevada levies none where the work is. There is no exemption form to submit because there is no tax to be exempt from.
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Nine states levy no personal income tax on wages, and both ends of this commute are among them. That makes Tennessee to Nevada one of the few pairings where the usual questions — who withholds, which return comes first, whether a credit covers the gap — simply do not arise.
What you file
There is nothing to file in either Tennessee or Nevada on these wages. Your federal return is unaffected — the federal government taxes the income whatever the states do.
The two states, side by side
| Tennessee | Nevada | |
|---|---|---|
| Taxes wages | No | No |
| Reciprocity partners | None | None |
| Convenience rule | No | No |
| Nonresident return | Not applicable | Not applicable |
| Credit for other-state tax | No income tax | No income tax |
| Nonresident safe harbour | Not applicable | Not applicable |
| Local income tax | No | No |
| Revenue department | Tennessee 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 Tennessee gives:No state income tax either side.
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: Tennessee → NevadaNo state income tax either side
- 1099 contractor: Tennessee → NevadaNo state income tax either side
- Moved mid-year: Tennessee → NevadaNo state return either side
Other Tennessee pairs
Questions people actually ask
I live in Tennessee and work in Nevada. Which state takes the tax out of my paycheck?
Nothing is withheld and nothing is filed. Wage income escapes state tax on both sides of this pair: Tennessee levies none as your home state, and Nevada levies none where the work is. There is no exemption form to submit because there is no tax to be exempt from.
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 Tennessee or Nevada is an error worth querying.
How current is this?
The Tennessee and Nevada rules on this page were last checked against Tennessee 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.
- Tennessee Department of Revenue — individual income taxaccessed 2026-08-07
- Nevada Department of Taxation — individual income taxaccessed 2026-08-07