[dewilson58]

Originally Posted by davem4616

I agree...I was challenged 4 times and providing them with the above documents ended it...but they did it four year in a row before giving up

Why does the IRS care what state your primary is??

[rphil11ort]

one thing i can tell you that your car insurance would have to moved to a florida policy. talk to your insurance company

[dewilson58]

Originally Posted by davem4616

.My tax attorney told me not to worry about having an out of state license or out of state plates...the borders between all the states are open

Tax attorney may not understand the exposure........the risk is the insurance carrier may deny a claim.

[Curtisbwp]

I have a home in the villages and a home in Maine. I have one suv (Rav 4) and a truck (toyota tacoma) bith are registered in Fl. Maine has yearly inspections, fl has no inspection. Maine charges a yearly excerise tax, fl does not

[tophcfa]

Originally Posted by Curtisbwp

I have a home in the villages and a home in Maine. I have one suv (Rav 4) and a truck (toyota tacoma) bith are registered in Fl. Maine has yearly inspections, fl has no inspection. Maine charges a yearly excerise tax, fl does not

Gotta love Florida for that. I have to pay about $400 per year to the state of Taxachusetts in excise tax every year for my truck, as well as go through the hassle and expense of an inspection. Not in Florida. Our BMW convertible in Florida has a perpetual "check engine" light on, the code triggering the light is the catalytic converter failure. If the car was registered in MA, it would have to be inspected annually (as well as taxed) and would fail inspection without replacing a $2,200 catalytic converter that would actually makes the car run a little bit worse. Go figure?

[DAVES]

We moved to Florida about eight years ago and were thrilled that it took us roughly one hour to deal with getting a Fla driver's license, plates, register to vote and home tax exemption.
I just tried to complete some other government paperwork, Due to xmas and or covid, it is far different. Impossible to contact anyone on the phone. Someone tells you to do it at
whatever, first of all they do not answer the phone either, you drive there and find the office is closed, You will be directed to a website. In my case the information on the website was incorrect. On line chat? I gave up after being on hold for an hour and a half.
If, you can, I would wait till Jan 2021. Oh, the wait at the post office to mail anything is about an hour.

[Garywt]

I am retired and my wife still works. I will not spend time in Florida away from her. I have done a 2 week stay but that is all. I the 22 months we have owned the house we have been there a total of about 6 weeks (plus 2 just me.). We have left everything registered in Mass. Mass does not have a homestead discount so we just pay as we go. Taxes in Florida are escrowed and run about $4800 a year which is lower than Mass taxes. Each of us needs to work out what is best.