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Florida (with no state income tax on it), not DC.
Byron Donalds is a U.S. Representative for Florida’s 19th Congressional District and maintains his primary residence/domicile in Naples, Florida.
Under federal law (4 U.S.C. § 113), no state or political subdivision—including the District of Columbia—in which a Member of Congress maintains a place of abode solely for attending sessions of Congress may:
Treat the Member as a resident or domiciliary for income tax purposes, or
Treat the Member’s congressional compensation (salary) as income sourced from or performed in that jurisdiction,
unless the Member represents that state or a district in it.
This protects Members from DC (or other non-home jurisdictions) taxing their federal congressional paychecks based on temporary housing in the capital. Florida imposes no state personal income tax, so Donalds’s congressional salary is not subject to state-level income tax there either.
Like all Members of Congress, the salary is subject to federal income tax (withheld like any other W-2 wages), plus FICA (Social Security and Medicare) taxes. State tax treatment of other income (if any) would follow normal Florida residency/domicile rules, but the congressional paycheck itself is shielded from DC taxation by the statute above.
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