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Illinois tax due, non resident.

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September 16, 2024
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I have been a Florida resident for 25 years, and a couple of years ago I went to Illinois with the intention of bringing my girlfriend down to Florida to live with me. When I got to Illinois we found out her dad had a couple weeks left to live of cancer. So I decided to stay there for a couple of weeks. In the meantime I did a couple of small jobs for her brother up there. So when it came time to do taxes obviously I had to enter that in. But I came back to Florida shortly after and have been here ever since. They are saying I owe them $1,500...... Do I have to pay it? I never intend on going back there. Never had a Illinois residence, never had a Illinois driver's license or anything. It's 2024 and this happened in 2018.

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rjs

Any money that you earn for working in a different state is taxed by the state that you worked in, even though you are not a resident of that state. It doesn't matter if you live in a state that does not have state income tax. You were supposed to file an Illinois nonresident tax return to report the income that you earned for working in Illinois.

The $1,500 that you now owe probably includes penalties for not filing the Illinois nonresident tax return, and interest from when you should have paid the tax until now.