This doesn’t help after the fact, but for others I learned that in my state at least, you can register for a secure account on the unemployment website and that makes it harder for people to commit the fraud since they won’t be able to create a new account with your information if you already have one.
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I’m commissioning a piece of digital art from a certain highly talented artist (who just quit their job and is generally awesome and adorable). I would also like a physical print. Can anyone recommend a printer for this purpose?
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Kinkos or Costco? Kinkos will mount it too and does big sizes (poster +]
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How do taxes work when you move states partway through the year?
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My kids filed in both states but both their states have income taxes. I never filed in WA because I didn’t have to but haven’t lived there for a number of years now and haven’t paid attention to changes.
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You’ll file as a part-year resident. There is probably a special form (there is in my state).
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Yep - file in both states if both have income tax. The percentage of the year may influence what you need to do (like if you were only in one state for one month). But you would be almost a clean 50% depending on when you move.
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So only one has income tax (oregon). The other is Washington, which doesn’t. How does that work?
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Obviously I’m not a tax expert but I always filed partial year in ID or OR or MN and didn’t file at all in WA.
…wait so. Because no income tax. You don’t have to file taxes for the state? 
Eta but I assume you still have to if you like, sell investments or something? I don’t even know how/if WA taxes that. Ahhh this is weird
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They’re pretty heavy on the property taxes.
Hahaha actually for a house that’s $120k more than the same aged house we owned in (Hometown, redacted, in Oregon), taxes are over $2500 less per year.
Oregon is expensive 
but WA has sales tax and a business tax I guess that’s pretty steep.
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You don’t file income taxes for the state, no.
Lemme ask my parents if they have to file anything for property taxes.
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…my mom has now been on the phone for 27 minutes and we haven’t discussed the reason I called yet 
ETA after a hilarious lesson on how to pay property taxes I finally got it out of my mom that no, they don’t file anything at all through the state. “You know property taxes are paid to the county, right, Kat?” “Yes mom but for example here I pay my taxes to the county and also have to file property taxes with the state by August.” Which led to a long explanation of paying biannually versus through escrow 
“Now when you get your property tax statement, it comes in spring every year, usually by April, you have the choice to pay once in April and once in October. Now the county assesses your property taxes every three or so years, and they always go up. And we also pay water to the county. It’s related to farms. But we pay the county, and–”
My mom is awesome.
My dad, who does the tax prep and filing once yearly while my mom does all the other finances, was at the barber shop so texted my mom that he couldn’t talk.
My mom did reiterate multiple times they do not file anything tax-related with the state, only federal.
She actually started out saying I should ask my brother because he lives in Vancouver and works in Portland… but doesn’t own property and we already know how income taxes are filed in partial years so that wasn’t the question.
I think it took so long for her to figure out what I was asking because she couldn’t wrap her head around actually doing anything with property taxes besides paying them.
The short answer is Nope you don’t file property taxes in WA "but Kat make sure she checks with her county"
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Thank you to you and your mom 
She’s a doll.
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I had no idea filing taxes for the state was a thing till probably my late 20s. Federal only, city/county get theirs through like sales tax or property tax type stuff. Watching @MonkeyJenga try to figure out filing in I think three different states was kind of mind blowing in watching-a-train-wreck kind of way.
My state sucks at a lot of things, but at least we have that going for us I guess? Yay?
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Wow. I’ve been working and therefore filing taxes since I was 14 and have never lived in a state with no state filing. Had no idea that was a thing and now I’m fascinated.
This reminds me how last year I got reprimanded by the dude at the Chevrolet repair shop because my state inspection was past due. I thought that EVs were exempt (apparently just from the emissions part because obvious) but also because I’ve never owned a car in a state where yearly inspections are a thing. I have zero paperwork telling me about it so I was just confused and felt like someone should take my adult card away.
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Will you or your hubs continue to work in Oregon? Then I think you will continue to have to pay OR sate taxes after you move to WA, but only on the income earned in that OR (not on your investments, etc, or any work performed at home or outside of OR). You’d file a non-resident tax return for OR. For 2020 you’ll have to file both part-year resident for the first half of the year and nonresident for the second half, unless the state has some way to combine them in one.
https://www.oregon.gov/dor/programs/individuals/pages/what-form.aspx
This is a deeply confusing question so, his company… National company, he’s technically part of a Seattle office, but he does a bunch of his site work in Oregon. Umm. 
works from home mainly, Like 50-75% of the time, when not on scenes or at the lab.
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I’m not a tax expert, but if he is officially part of the Seattle office, WA rules probably apply, regardless of site visits.
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