From jminer@whatcom.ctc.edu Tue Sep 9 11:48:09 2003 Received: from mxu3.u.washington.edu (mxu3.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.133]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.9+UW03.06/8.12.9+UW03.08) with ESMTP id h89Im661049114 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 2003 11:48:08 -0700 Received: from BLAKELY.wcc.whatcom.ctc.edu ([134.39.214.25]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.12.9+UW03.06/8.12.9+UW03.08) with ESMTP id h89Im5ZO009873 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 2003 11:48:05 -0700 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: RE: Filed MA State Income Tax X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6249.0 Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 11:47:02 -0700 Message-ID: <915B71727D8C3744B30A952CC40B7D0308BCE9@BLAKELY.wcc.whatcom.ctc.edu> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Janelle Miner" To: X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIIII, Probability=8%, Report='SUPERLONG_LINE, __CT, __CTE, __CTYPE_CHARSET_QUOTED, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN, __EVITE_CTYPE, __HAS_MIMEOLE, __HAS_MSGID, __IMS_MSGID, __MIME_VERSION, __SANE_MSGID, __UNUSABLE_MSGID' Good points, Joe. As an interesting aside, I have discovered (by moving = myself) that if someone files a permanent address change request with = the U.S. Post Office, s/he gets an information packet which, in fact, = has individual sections on the "how-to's" of "Voter Registration" and = "Driver's License & Vehicle Registration." I have saved mine, and will = often bring it out to remind students that they may have received (and = ignored) this information. It sometimes takes the indignant wind out of = their sails, so to speak. Don't y'all just love this time of year? Janelle Miner, Registrar Whatcom Community College 237 W. Kellogg Road Bellingham, WA 98226 (360) 676-2170 jminer@whatcom.ctc.edu -----Original Message----- From: Joseph St Hilaire [mailto:Joseph.StHilaire@wwu.edu]=20 Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 11:10 AM To: Discussion of Residency Issues State Wide Subject: RE: Filed MA State Income Tax ***Ignorance of the law is rife. I'd wager that not ten percent of the = population is aware of the fact that you are required to change your = driver's license and vehicle registration within 30 days of arrival in = the state. In fact, the state makes no effort to publicize the fact and = many people don't find out about it until they get stopped for a traffic = violation. But in case, as Janelle says, the DSHS date is probably = sufficient since there is no education presumption. By the way, among those ten percent who are aware of the law are the = over-zealous few who leave the state to attend school or military = assignment, and as soon as they land in the other state, they change the = DL and VR, thinking it's required. Then they return here and wonder why = we can't immediately call them residents. Joe St.Hilaire Western -----Original Message----- From: Janelle Miner [mailto:jminer@whatcom.ctc.edu]=20 Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 3:44 PM To: Discussion of Residency Issues State Wide Subject: RE: Filed MA State Income Tax Because the student lived in Massachusetts for the majority of 2002 (Jan-Aug) I can see why she might have thought it made sense to file the = Massachusetts tax form. Even so, I don't think it establishes her = intent to domicile in WA--she simply listed her current address on the = form. Her other dates of 4/03 and 5/03 don't substantiate residency for = fall either, but I would consider something from WA DSHS to verify when = she started receiving state benefits.=20 Janelle Miner, Registrar Whatcom Community College 237 W. Kellogg Road Bellingham, WA 98226 (360) 676-2170 jminer@whatcom.ctc.edu -----Original Message----- From: Coker-Anderson, Andrea [mailto:CokerA@evergreen.edu]=20 Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 3:19 PM To: Discussion of Residency Issues State Wide Subject: Filed MA State Income Tax We have an incoming student at Evergreen that has resided in Washington = since September 18, 2002. She has had no regular employment because of = a disability. She has received financial assistance from DSHS and has = lived off of savings for this past year. Her voter registration is = dated 4/2003 and her WA state ID is dated 5/2003. She filed her federal = income tax forms using her Washington addresses yet filed Massachusetts = Resident Income tax forms (still using her WA address). She indicates = that using this form was an error and the fact that she filed using her = WA address on the form proves her intent to consider her domicile as = Washington. Since she has no presumption to overcome, how should we = feel about her filing state income taxes as a MA resident? I look = forward to your advice. Andrea Andrea Coker-Anderson Registrar The Evergreen State College .