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How to make TurboTax correctly treat nonresident RSU income for CA?
My employer issued RSUs, some of which had an award date when I lived in CA and a vest date when I lived in OR. The employer correctly calculated the amount to withhold for CA taxes at vesting date based on the dates I lived in CA vs when I lived in OR, and reported it on my W2 as regular income for CA wages.
In TurboTax, I entered the information, along with my residency status (CA non-resident, did not live in CA for any of 2022). TurboTax seems to have inferred that all of the tax paid to CA is invalid and issued me a 100% refund, when in fact it is correct (see the RSU section of https://www.ftb.ca.gov/forms/misc/1004.html, pasted below)
Restricted stock unit (RSU): If you are a California nonresident, on the vesting date:
California will tax the wage income to the extent services were performed in California from the grant date to the vesting date.
I believe the refund should be much closer to zero (if not exactly zero). Where do I tell TurboTax that these wages were correctly withheld even though I did not live in CA at all during 2022?
Adding a few more details:
What TurboTax seems to have done is mark the income tax paid to CA as subject to CA tax credit 187 (see https://www.ftb.ca.gov/forms/2022/2022-540-s-instructions.html) which states
> Generally, residents of California may claim a credit only if the income taxed by the other state has a source within the other state under California law.
According to the rules for RSUs, these wages have a source of CA and cannot be counted toward this credit. This seems like a bug in TuroTax (or at least, it seems I cannot override this manually).