Hey all, I had a question regarding a state claiming you're a resident and trying to take income taxes from you. I was an active duty military member stationed in California from 2005-2009, however I was still a resident of Texas the entire time. I did have an apartment during the time I was there and was thinking they somehow got all of my information from that and claimed I was a resident? I have absolutely zero idea why California thinks I was ever a resident of their state and how they can possibly just take money out of my account one day(a little over 400 bucks, which is a big deal to a broke student on the GI Bill).

The thing is, I thought this had all been cleared up because I called when I first started getting notices, the person on the phone assured me it was all cleared up but I have no proof of this. Obviously I'm going to call the tax board in CA tomorrow and see what I can do. Any advice? How the hell is it legal to basically steal someone's money?

I'm thinking they believe I'm a resident either because my apartment lease somehow OR the fact that I had to get some sort of # from their DMV identifying me in some court documents after my license got suspended(not trying to hide any thing from you all, it was a DUI). However I never changed residence and it always showed my Home of Record in Texas being my address.

If this is the wrong forum, I apologize. I put this here because the legal discussion forum seemed mostly about firearms. If I am incorrect and a mod could move this I would be most grateful. Thank you for your help.

They have all the money I "owe" them on hold right now, which is a little over 400 bucks. They already straight up took $100 of it. I asked the CU(Navy Federal) I use and they said it was legal and couldn't do anything. I am back in Texas, have been going to school for nearly 3 years now(got out of Cali in 2009). It isn't worth paying for a lawyer, and I get the sinking feeling I'll never see this money again but I suppose I'll see when I call them up tomorrow.

Yeah I will ask that, I figure once the state has my money it'll be all sorts of hoops to jump through. I do my taxes every year online @ H&R Block and have definitely never filed a state tax or claimed residency in another state. The problem is I was a dumb junior enlisted guy and didn't keep all of the paperwork. Thanks for your advice

Nice. Well, I was in Cali between 04 and 08 and luckily they haven't done anything dumb like that to me. What was the servicing PSD?

I thought the same thing, they filed a new law that my property managment firm nor my accountant knew about till it was too late and forced my property manangment company to give them the money. Once I filed the paperwork though I got the return at the end of the year. I personally believe they know they can't have this money and are doing this shit so they can hold onto it until the end of the year and earn intrest on it.

There is a trucking company that their map of the country on the back of their trailers looks like that, they include Nevada though.

And you don't think NY does this? As I understand it, they are great about taxing you for "work" or "living" in NY state/city.

I remember Rush Limbaugh getting caught up in this and having to limit his time actually in NY to like 5 days a year or something stupid.


Expect more states to pile on this. Almost all of them are desperate for "revenue" and will obtain it any way they can by any method they can.

Glad you got it all fixed. Now ask Navy fed for a new account so Killafornia can't try this again next year.

I wasn't required to file CA taxes for the home I owned in Lemoore. I resided in Ohio when the home was rented out and no money was earned in Cali, the checks came to me in Ohio and was claimed on my Ohio and Federal taxes.