Fleeing California Taxes? Get In Line (Leaving is not that easy)

Forbes ^ | 01/16/2013 | Robert W. Wood

[SeekAndFind]

Is it any wonder that many small and medium sized businesses are moving out of California? In the recent elections, California Voters Sock It To The Rich. As the Wall Street Journal noted, some are promising businesses a better life elsewhere. Being courted must be refreshing but it is important for a company and its owners to have reasonable expectations and to budget for drilling down into California’s rules.

After all, leaving is not always easy. A California resident is anyone in the state for other than a temporary or transitory purpose. See FTB Publication 1031. Plus, it includes anyone domiciled in California who is outside the state for a temporary or transitory purpose. The burden is on you to show you’re not a Californian. If you’re in California for more than 9 months, you are presumed a resident.

Yet if your job requires you to be outside the state, it usually takes 18 months to be presumed no longer a resident. Your domicile is your true, fixed permanent home, the place where you intend to return even when you’re gone. You can have only one domicile, but many facts are relevant. Start with where you are employed and where you own a home.

If you own several, compare size and value. Consider your homeowner’s property tax exemption, where your spouse and children reside, etc. Your days inside and outside the state are important, as is the purpose of your travels. Where do you have bank accounts and belong to social, religious, professional and other organizations?

Voter registration, vehicle registration and driver’s licenses count. Where you own or operate businesses counts, as does the relative income and time you devote to them. You can own investments far and wide, but you can expect them to be compared.

[max americana]

LOL, thanks bud, I’ll remember that. My sis-in-law is from Pampanga BTW and my bro were married at Plantation Bay, Cebu. Nowadays, if you ever call AT&T, Paypal, Verizon or Dell, their call centers are in Cebu.

[rolling_stone]

they need to divide california into LA with San Fran and everything else...

[max americana]

“Yes but.....they have balut and truly fantastic mangos also San Miguel Beer”

(drooling). Remembered my new in-laws waking me up to wait for the taho’ dude to walk by in the mornings, I missed that drink. Also I got addicted to fishballs you find almost everywhere there. Of course, we’re awake during night there so they would bring me to these ‘24 hour pares’ eateries.

But one thing I can’t believe is the way they break the laws in driving LOL. I swear they are driving by each other within inches

[Neidermeyer]

I’m familiar with that ... I used to handle the IP networks for Dell CustServ when Convergys had the contract and their call centers were in FL and Utah... I use Vonage and their custserv is in Metro Manila. Lexmark also has a large inkjet and laser cartridge manufacturing facility in Cebu, opened around 2003.