Shaddup and pay your exit tax, slave (Page 1/1) MidEngineManiac AUG 02, 03:59 PM Ontario tried this in the 90's when Ontario Hydro (government electric utility) got privatized. Anybody leaving the province would get a "bill" for their "fair share" of the government debt amounting to tens of thousands. Got told to go screw themselves and try and get it so many times they dropped the idea. 82-T/A [At Work] AUG 04, 07:51 AM quote Originally posted by MidEngineManiac: Ontario tried this in the 90's when Ontario Hydro (government electric utility) got privatized. Anybody leaving the province would get a "bill" for their "fair share" of the government debt amounting to tens of thousands. Got told to go screw themselves and try and get it so many times they dropped the idea. The state of Maryland did this to me also... they effectively had an "exit tax" at the time that I moved back to Florida. For that year, I'd only worked 1.5 months (January and half of February), but when tax time came, they basically said that if I was "abandoning" my residency to another state, I then had to pay a minimum of 6 months of state taxes. Since Florida has no state income tax at all... I wasn't having deductions taken out automatically for the state of Maryland, obviously... so they made me send a check for something like 3 grand, for which I also didn't qualify for any tax breaks at the time (because I wasn't technically living there during most of it either). Larry Hogan (or whatever his name is), the new Governor, has since eliminated those tax laws... but I wasn't living there when he was governor at the time.