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State income Box 16 double reported for ME and CA
I was a California resident for the first 4 months of the year then moved to Maine to become a Maine resident for the remaining 8 months. The whole year I worked for an office based in Maine. My W-2 shows 2 amounts in Box 16: CA state wages that appear apportioned to my time in CA, but the ME state wages are my entire wages, ie equal to Box 1. Isn't that double-reporting my income, and resulting in double paying state taxes? Why would my entire wages be reported for Maine if I was a resident for only 8 months? Perhaps it is because my workplace was Maine for the whole year, however, the income allocation question in Turbotax says "enter the amount that was earned during the period you were a Maine Resident". This automatically fills with my entire wages. I'm concerned about changing this amount to the amount earned while I was actually a Maine resident, as it would then not match Box 16 in the W-2. Thoughts?