Arizona Gains 66,000 New Taxpayers, Mostly from California
Arizona | June 8, 2021
Taxpayers are coming to Arizona from other states by the tens of thousands and bringing billions of dollars in annual earnings with them.
The Internal Revenue Service released its annual migration statistics, a record of address changes by filers and their dependents between tax years. The data released in late May reflects changes from the 2018-2019 tax years, which symbolize moves that occurred between 2017 and 2018. Nationwide, 8 million people relocated to either another state or county.
Arizona gained 218,736 new taxpayers in that time. Having lost 152,769, that’s a net gain of 65,967 exemptions from one tax year to the next. That’s nearly 1,000 more than the previous tax year.
That’s the tax-paying population equivalent to adding another Casa Grande. Those added taxpayers represent $3.8 billion in annual gross income.
Of those incoming taxpayers, 22,717 earned at least $75,000 in tax year 2019.
“Arizona is a land of opportunity,” said CJ Karamargin, a spokesman for Gov. Doug Ducey. “What these numbers are is proof of that.”
Far and away, the majority came from California, at 29,050 after subtracting those who went the opposite direction. Ducey penned an op-ed for the Orange County Register in March, commenting about why he thinks so many Californians are moving to Arizona…
(Excerpts from the Virginia Star)