Florida has no income tax. That is not the same as no tax.

People arrive from New York, New Jersey, Illinois, and California with a well-earned sense of relief. There is no Florida individual income tax. There is also no Florida department waiting to help you unwind the state you left. That work is still yours — or ours.

Part-year is a real return

The year you move, the old state wants a part-year resident return. Income is allocated by source and by days. A W-2 from the old job is usually sourced there. A remote-work W-2 paid by an old-state employer after you sat down in Hudson is a fight, and the employer’s withholding is not the answer. We file the part-year, apply the credits, and keep the workpapers.

The rental you kept

A two-family in Hoboken or a condo in Chicago is still sourced to that state. Schedule E on the federal return, a nonresident return in the other state, and depreciation that has to match both. Selling it later is a capital-gain event in that state, Florida residency notwithstanding.

What Florida does tax

Florida corporate income/franchise tax on C-corps and some federal-taxable entities, Tangible Personal Property on furniture and equipment, sales and use tax, and reemployment tax on wages. Households do not file a Florida 1040. Businesses still have a stack.

If you moved this year, bring the old-state return, the closing package if you sold a house, and the first pay stub from after the move. The consult is thirty minutes. The allocation is the part that is easy to get wrong.