My son worked in our home state during the summer, but when he went to college out of state he got a job for a few months. Does a separate state need to be purchased and filed? The home state is Maryland, and the other state is South Carolina. If we have to purchase SC, do we need to create a separate federal form for just that W-2 so it can be filed in SC? If we can use the same federal form and include all income from both states, is the software smart enough to know how to calculate the tax information for just the other state (SC)? What if the cost of purchasing the extra state is more than the amount of the return he would get?
