About to move from MS to ATL- tax question

Well dang...

What's your deal with ATL?

No matter what you do employer will withhold Ga taxes. You can keep ms residency but you will pay Ga taxes. Matters where you work not live/reside

Good luck in Atlanta

Hope you bring a gun

I grew up in Atlanta, not a bad place to live and you don't need a gun. But if you want to get a concealed carry it is very easy in ga.

You gonna be MARTA

98% of Atlanta is not dangerous/unsafe. Don't live in the 2%.

Story.

Friend was life long LA resident. She got job in TN. Sold her house here, moved there and never looked back. Couple years down road she is driving to ATL for Christmas with family and pulled over for speeding. They run her license and TAKE HER TO JAIL.

Obviously to her when she moved away from LA she was done filing taxes there. Nope. State said "we don't care where you earn your money, you live here in LA so you gotta pay us and since you didn't file a return with us we estimate you owe us $6000 on your return. We believe that because you didn't get a new license in another state or change your car registration etc." So since they said she owed $6000 they suspended her license which she didn't know about until that officer pulled her over for speeding.

She eventually satisfied LA that she had in fact moved away and was never coming back and didn't owe the $6,000. But if you move to ATL, establish residency there by getting new license, registration, and change your voter registration or you could be paying taxes in two places.

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Story.

Friend was life long LA resident. She got job in TN. Sold her house here, moved there and never looked back. Couple years down road she is driving to ATL for Christmas with family and pulled over for speeding. They run her license and TAKE HER TO JAIL.

Obviously to her when she moved away from LA she was done filing taxes there. Nope. State said "we don't care where you earn your money, you live here in LA so you gotta pay us and since you didn't file a return with us we estimate you owe us $6000 on your return. We believe that because you didn't get a new license in another state or change your car registration etc." So since they said she owed $6000 they suspended her license which she didn't know about until that officer pulled her over for speeding.

She eventually satisfied LA that she had in fact moved away and was never coming back and didn't owe the $6,000. But if you move to ATL, establish residency there by getting new license, registration, and change your voter registration or you could be paying taxes in two places.

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I am legit dealing with this exact same situation. I kept my Louisiana license for the past 3 years while moving around in multiple states. I work a job where I will be temporarily located in places for 8-10 months and then move. I didn't feel like getting a new license for every move so I just kept the license as my parents' address in Louisiana.

About a month ago my mom called to tell me they received the notice from the LA Department of Revenue that my license was being suspended for lack of income tax filing in 2010, 2011, and 2012.

It's been a bureaucratic nightmare and driving me crazy !

To the person asking the original question, no it won't keep your taxes low. If you retain your Mississippi drivers license you will have to file taxes in each state. If Alanta's taxes (which your company will withhold) are higher than Mississippi's than you won't have to pay anything additional and the only hassle is just having to file a second state tax return. If Mississippi's are higher you'll have to pay the difference.