@tbrown4182 wrote:
Thank you for the information! When you say file the NY return first do you mean a nonresident return? And am I supposed to file it before my federal return?
For the sake of future readers:
When using turbotax, you prepare your federal return first. If you have one or more state returns, you open those returns after completing the federal return, and your federal income and deductions will flow to the state returns, then you can make state-specific adjustments. In the case of a person who owes income tax as a state resident, and as a non-resident to a different state, work on the non-resident return first. You have to manually tell Turbotax how much of your income applies to the non-resident state, and the non-resident state will assess its tax. Then the resident state will tax all your world-wide income, and apply a credit for taxes paid to another state.
Here, because the taxpayer has stated they never worked inside of NY, they aren't required to file a NY non-resident return.
