re: Residency challenges—has any state ever gone after you?

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I have plenty of clients who moved from another state to Louisiana and because they have an LA address on the return, the state assumes all of their income should be subject to Louisiana tax.

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This happened to me, personally, when I moved from TX back to LA. I moved in January, so when I filed my tax returns that summer (yeah, I'm an extender) I used my LA address on my federal return, and didn't file an LA return (because all of my income for the year being filed was Texas income).

Couple of years later, LDR info-shares with IRS and thinks I should have filed an LA return. But the weird thing is, they sent all of the notices... to my Texas address. To this day, I have no idea how they even had that. I had no idea this was happening until a couple of years later when my federal tax refund got scooped and sent to LA. I call and was told about my missing tax return and how they assessed tax on me and I had a debt.

Took about 3 months and a small forest worth of paper, but got it resolved and got my money back.