Domicile refers to the place you call home permanently. Your domicile is important for legal purposes such as paying taxes, voting, and claiming benefits."Domicile" will mean a person's true, fixed and permanent home, to which a person intends to return. It means your permanent home, i.c. , any place where you have lived and, while you are absent from it, you intend to return. Your domicile is your fixed and permanent home to which you always have the intention of returning whenever absent, even though you may live elsewhere. An individual who maintains a permanent place of abode in this Commonwealth is taxable as a resident even though he may be domiciled elsewhere. DOMICILE - the place where a person lives and has a permanent home and to which the person has the intention of returning whenever absent. 1. a dwelling place : place of residence : home 2. Law a : a person's fixed, permanent, and principal home for legal purposes