Welcome to Tax Week , a weeklong series of guides and resources for the 2025 tax season. For civilians, state taxes are easy. In most cases, civilians are residents of the state where they physically live, and they file their state income taxes there. (Or not, if the state has no filing requirement.) But the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA) grants special protections to military service members and their spouses so that they don't have to change their state of legal residence with every