Military pay and state taxes
Two sets of rules decide what tax you owe on military pay: the federal rules, which are the same wherever you are stationed, and the rules of the state that can tax you. This page is about the second one.
All 50 states are listed. Where our review is still in progress, we say so instead of guessing.
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States with a completed primary-source review
Primary-source review complete: We have read this state's own tax authority on every point we cover, and each point below either has an answer or expressly does not apply. This describes how complete our reading is. It says nothing about whether the state's rules are good or bad for you.
Every other state
These states are listed so you can see where we are, not to imply an answer. A state without a page has no page because our reading of its own tax authority is not finished.
- Alabama — Primary-source review in progress
- Alaska — Primary-source review in progress
- Arizona — Primary-source review in progress
- Arkansas — Primary-source review in progress
- California — Primary-source review in progress
- Colorado — Primary-source review in progress
- Connecticut — Primary-source review in progress
- Delaware — Primary-source review in progress
- Georgia — Primary-source review in progress
- Hawaii — Primary-source review in progress
- Idaho — Research for this state is not yet available.
- Illinois — Primary-source review in progress
- Kansas — Primary-source review in progress
- Kentucky — Primary-source review in progress
- Louisiana — Primary-source review in progress
- Maine — Primary-source review in progress
- Massachusetts — Primary-source review in progress
- Michigan — Primary-source review in progress
- Minnesota — Primary-source review in progress
- Mississippi — Primary-source review in progress
- Missouri — Primary-source review in progress
- Montana — Primary-source review in progress
- Nebraska — Primary-source review in progress
- Nevada — Research for this state is not yet available.
- New Hampshire — Research for this state is not yet available.
- New Jersey — Primary-source review in progress
- New Mexico — Primary-source review in progress
- North Carolina — Primary-source review in progress
- North Dakota — Primary-source review in progress
- Ohio — Primary-source review in progress
- Oklahoma — Primary-source review in progress
- Oregon — Primary-source review in progress
- Pennsylvania — Primary-source review in progress
- Rhode Island — Research for this state is not yet available.
- South Carolina — Primary-source review in progress
- South Dakota — Primary-source review in progress
- Tennessee — Primary-source review in progress
- Texas — Primary-source review in progress
- Utah — Primary-source review in progress
- Vermont — Primary-source review in progress
- Washington — Primary-source review in progress
- West Virginia — Primary-source review in progress
- Wyoming — Primary-source review in progress
General education, built from primary government sources. Rules change, and your own facts matter. This is not individualized tax or legal advice.