@ckambol
Depends on which state is your resident state...you would have to file a non-resident tax return on the "other" state and claim zero income earned there (because of the reciprocal tax agreement) to get the "other" state's tax withholding refunded.
Thus, if you were a resident of WI, you could easily owe WI...because there "should have" been WI tax withholding...and WI expects you to get the IL withholding back from IL yourself......no credit for taxes paid to IL because that is not allowed in your situation.
(or the other way around if you are an IL resident and worked in WI )
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AND...check those W-2 forms carefully, are they entirely separate W-2 forms where box 1 (3&5) reports just the $$ received at that location, or are they just multiple state sub-forms for boxes 15,16,17.
IF entirely separate W-2 forms, then each is entered separately in the software (kind of sounds like this...but seems suspicious). I just had trouble imagining a single company would issue 6 completely separate W-2 forms...but I guess it could happen if they were actually something like...ohh... separate Franchisees.
......or, if one W-2 shows the grand total income for the year in box 1 (3&5) for all of them together, then the software expects one W-2, with multiple lines for boxes 15,16,17
____________*Answers are correct to the best of my knowledge when posted, but should not be considered to be legal or official tax advice.*
