Sorry if this seems confusing... Yes, my employment (and employment-based income) ended some years ago. Back when I was employed I somehow qualified for the company's Deferred Compensation Plan and was able to defer/not receive a portion of my salary each year (and had it saved there until I stopped working). Each year since then I have received compensation (4 payments/year) that comes from what was saved to that Deferred Compensation Plan. That is all the compensation I now receive from that employer and is reported each year on their W2. And each year of those DCP W2s the total compensation is reported as different amounts for Federal and State - more for Fed 'cause for the first few years of our being initially included in the DCP plan (when I was deferring) the Fed taxes were not withheld for the deferred amount but state tax withholding was done based on total income for the year (both non-deferred and deferred). That's how it was implemented but was changed after ~3 years and withholding only done for non-deferred for both Fed and State.
The employer and our State have settled differences and understand why the difference exists - and my returns and the extra letters have all been accepted/approved by the state. The difference is legitimate.
