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Originally Posted by Dr Winston O Boogie jr
It seems that if you changed your residency to Florida that they would have no power to force you to pay income tax.
Another option might be to sell the house up north and rent something for the months that you want to be up there.
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Changing your state residency isn’t always enough. Filing the declaration of domicile document could be helpful, but may not be enough. Be sure to cancel your voter registration in the snow belt state too.
The states that aggressively try to force you to continue to pay the state income taxes, try to figure out your “intention”, and they are motivated to not lose their state’s income tax revenue.
Renting a home in the snow belt state could be an option. But then you have to move and store your stuff! That could be a huge hassle, unless you travel very light to the snow belt state. It won’t be cheap to rent a vacation home for months, during the peak vacation time in the snow belt state.
There’s simply a lot of extra costs for being a snow bird that you have to accept, like mail forwarding, maintaining two homes a thousand miles apart, and maybe being forced to pay the state income taxes, if you’re not careful.
We considered being snow birds, but decided to move to Florida, and cut our relationship to Minnesota. We still have in laws in Minnesota, so we can stay with them, and don’t have to own or rent property in Minnesota.