Originally Posted by
SKYKN6
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.
I almost ran into something like this while a contract pilot mainly working out of CA and living in another state. Matter of fact - my accountant and my lawyer were some what confused by the fact that I flew out of and operated out of many different states (CA, NV, FL, VA to name a few at the time) They stated that I might have to pay EACH state some tax or even be licensed to work in each state. I dropped them both before I delved into that conundrum any further, but it got me to wondering just how complicated it could actually get as a self-employed contract pilot.
USMCFLYR