re: Texas state income tax

You get a credit for the taxes you paid to Texas.

From the Georgia state site.

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What are the requirements for a resident who earned income in another state?

A full year resident is taxed on all sources of income regardless of where the income is derived. Georgia allows other state credit for income taxes paid to states other than Georgia. A copy of the other state(s) income tax return must be attached to the Georgia return. Use the worksheet in the Georgia instruction booklet (IT-511) to compute the other state credit for a full or part-year resident. If you paid taxes to more than one state, use the total of the other state’s income to compute the credit. No credit is allowed for income earned in another state if the income was not taxed by the other state. The credit cannot exceed your Georgia income tax. No credit is allowed for income earned in another country

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Exactly. Which is what was quoted in the statute I provided.

He has to pay income in Georgia on the income earned in Texas if there is no state income tax in Texas. No ifs, ands or buts about it.

So what can I do to avoid the tax?

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You can't.

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Well that is not true. How long do I have to be a resident of TX to be considered domiciled there?

It doesn't matter if he does the work in Texas and checks the box. Georgia still says he is a resident and that he owes state income tax to the state of Georgia.

Correct.

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Interesting. So when I start full time and actually move out there for good will I still have to pay GA income taxes for the first year?

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No. Change of address. New drivers license. Vehicle registered in Texas. Etc.

I mean you could "fake it" but are the taxes on $15000 worth the risk? We're not talking about much money here.

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I mean you could "fake it" but are the taxes on $15000 worth the risk? We're not talking about much money here.

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I'm a broke college student $100 is a lot of money.

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I never did any of that. Just changed my withholding

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You got lucky. I'm originally from BR, but out of college I worked in Milwaukee for a couple of years before moving back to BR. I filed part-year resident returns for Louisiana and Wisconsin the year I moved back so that I would only be taxed by each state on the income earned in that state.

Fast forward a year later and I get a bill from Louisiana dept. of revenue for back taxes with interest and penalties. They had pulled my federal returns from the years I worked in Wisconsin and were going to bill me for Louisiana state taxes based on my federal AGI unless I could prove I wasn't a Louisiana resident during those years. Had to go dig up old apartment lease agreements and my canceled Wisconsin vehicle registration to get them to drop the bill. Sometimes it pays to be a pack rat with those kinds of things.