I have been dealing with this issue for several years, for a MA full year resident, and never have been able to efile the MA return. I've manipulated box 16, and made other changes to try to get it to efile, but no luck. Using TT desktop, and MA resident return info is entered last. I was hoping to get the MA efiled this year, but it still says I must paper file TY2024 MA return. I've read thru all the posts above on this topic and have not yet been able to solve my problem.
Here's the details. Taxpayer (family mbr) is a full year MA resident. Worked in CO, OH, NY, & MA. Have W-2s for all 4 states. With sample numbers - CO box 16 says $1K (is correct). OH box 16 says $12K (is correct). NY box 16 says $75K (incorrect as that is the full year gross). MA box 16 says $75K also (incorrect as that is the correct total gross wages for all 4 states). Correct earnings per state are - CO-$1K, OH-$12k, NY- $20K, MA-$42K. If I enter the W2s as printed, the first thing that happens is that TT desktop reports the total income as $150K, which is double the correct $75K. I've been able to resolve that back to the correct $75K - don't recall how. But that's behind me now. Can anyone advise on how to get the data entered correctly to allow MA efile? I have not yet manipulated any box 16 info for this TY2024 return, as I don't think I should be doing that.
TIA!
