You may be a NV resident but still have to pay CA taxes if it is CA "Source" income. If a pilot, 50% of your flight time must be outside CA. I ran into this years ago with Tigers based in LA. 2% of my income was in or over CA (asia trips)and my lawyer was easily able to tell them(CA Franchise Tax Board) to stick it up their @##. Make SURE your ducks line up!!!! I applaud your effort to give CA nothing. The sooner that state goes bankrupt and quits giving away honest working peoples' money to the lazy bums the sooner this financial mess will start to recover.