States that tax retirement income

[Bill55AZ]

Originally Posted by MadManofBethesda

That's interesting that you get to decide. In Maryland, the residency statute states that you are a Maryland resident if you reside here for more than 6 months. Period.

Well, they might have a 6 month plus one day rule here, but who is counting? If we stay in AZ 5.9 months and Utah 6.1 months, only we will know....
We will be paying federal taxes using an AZ address, voting in AZ, own a home in AZ, etc. Our car or cars in Utah will be registered in Utah and we will have Utah drivers licenses, so we can have the cheaper Utah insurance rates and no emissions testing.
Most likely, after the first of the year we will buy a cheap used car to leave in AZ full time, and register it in AZ. There are no AZ sales taxes on used cars bought from private sellers, and if it is 25 years or older and has collector car insurance, it can even be exempted from emissions testing.
Our Utah house is bigger, worth twice as much, etc. but that is not part of any govt criteria.
IF we decide to go back to work, then things change. Where we work, we must become residents...

[MotleyCrew]

Originally Posted by Bill55AZ

Well, they might have a 6 month plus one day rule here, but who is counting? If we stay in AZ 5.9 months and Utah 6.1 months, only we will know....
We will be paying federal taxes using an AZ address, voting in AZ, own a home in AZ, etc. Our car or cars in Utah will be registered in Utah and we will have Utah drivers licenses, so we can have the cheaper Utah insurance rates and no emissions testing.
Most likely, after the first of the year we will buy a cheap used car to leave in AZ full time, and register it in AZ. There are no AZ sales taxes on used cars bought from private sellers, and if it is 25 years or older and has collector car insurance, it can even be exempted from emissions testing.
Our Utah house is bigger, worth twice as much, etc. but that is not part of any govt criteria.
IF we decide to go back to work, then things change. Where we work, we must become residents...

We have two classic cars and pay the classic car insurance rate on one of them. You are limited as to how many miles you can drive when on the classic car insurance. Our 64 1/2 Mustang is a daily driver and costs more to insure than a newer car but exhempt from emmisions. Also to have a classic car on the collector rate, each licensed driver has to own another vehicle. So it is a little tricky. The exemption from the testing is a plus.