Military Members and Spouses Could Avoid State Income Taxes Thanks to New Law

I'm not sure if it has changed since I retired, but I was an Oregon resident for my 24 years of Navy service, and Oregon did not tax active duty service members. I paid zero state income tax while in the Navy. I did vote via absentee ballot, maintain an Oregon driver's license and Oregon vehicle registrations the entire time.

Then I retired to Missouri, where for the first time in my adult life, had to pay "Personal Property Tax" on the things I own. Each year, we have to complete a checklist of any vehicles, farm vehicles and implements, the number of animals we have, by species, age and gender, and various buildings and structures we have on the farm on 1 January. We then report this to the county assessor and we get the bill some time during the year and have to have it paid by 31 December. Just to do it all over again on 1 January the following year. So we pay income tax, sales tax, property tax on the farm, and then personal property tax on the things we have to keep the farm moving forward.
We do our best to have processing dates for our hogs and cattle late in the year, prior to 1 January, so that we don't have to count them come 1 Jan.