I did the same concerning California. My now wife moved out of California in order to marry me. She had worked for a couple of months in CA in a part time job while she finished college. I worked the whole year, in Michigan. We filed joint Michigan and US tax returns. She was due a refund on the Taxes CA had withheld, so I filled out a joint CA tax return, as well. According to the instructions, I was required to include ALL of my Michigan income on the CA tax return, but then was allowed to deduct my Michigan payment from the required CA payment. It was still a lot of money.
We punted, and filed a single payer tax return for CA, and received the whole refund. I think the statute of limitations has expired, so I can return to CA without fear, but there is absolutely no reason for me to ever want to do that again. We drove across the Bay Bridge in San Francisco with “I left my Heart in San Francisco”
playing on the radio, and it was quite sad. My heart has returned home, and there is no way I would ever step foot there again.
Used to really enjoy going to SFO on business. But then it became overladen with: 1) bums living on the sidewalks; 2) human waste in common areas, such as BART stations, where the stench was incredible; 3) far left Bolsheviks such as the DA just elected, one Chesa Boudin, who is the proud son of murderous felons and who won’t enforce laws; 4) a school board interested in removing names of America’s greats, such as Lincoln, from public schools. Sad as it is, I think its a good time for SFO, Portland and Seattle to consider leaving the union as the rest of us have nothing in common with this bunch and they appear to have majority support in their cities for their far left loony policies.