Thanks for that keen advice, from once-lovely Santa Barbara, whose parks are now open toilets, thanks to the tapeworms of the Ninth Circuit; and that move is already being done incrementally, since escape from CA and the questing, feeding tentacles of the California Franchise Tax Board, is a bit of a challenge, if one hasn't truly looked into it; and none too straightforward, for a business owner, with some remaining though tenuous ties to California -- a bit like eliminating an existing stand of bamboo without completely excising the rhizomes; that, and my veteran tax attorney said that he'd rather face, and I quote, "a barbed wire high colonic" audit from the IRS, than deal with a second one from the FTB, since they can audit a person indefinitely; whereas, the feds can only do so for a period of three to six years.
Additionally, it's far better to plan and liquidate any potential CA real estate; cash out investments, once you're officially no longer a resident; but, under some circumstances, that may take over eighteen months, to completely verify -- to avoid a potential CA thirteen-plus percent capital gains nick to the femoral artery; never mind the fed's fifteen to twenty percent take.
That's a scheiß-load of diving and conch!
A non-resident tax return—just reporting California-source income, from property, as a "non-resident"— was already filed in April.
Don't fret -- I'll leave you to the legions of junkies and skells, in Pershing Park, soon enough . . .
