You enter the W-2 as one W-2 in the software, but in boxes 15-16-17, there will be two lines, one for MD and another line for MO.
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1) Ignore the state sections balances due, until you have absolutely everything entered in the Federal part...every scrap of income and every deduction/credit. The state balances due during this phase may be warped....because you have yet to do the Part-year income allocations for each state during their interview sections.
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2) After #1 is done, work thru the MD part-year tax questions...and you will "allocate" what sub-portion of the Federal income was actually earned while you were living in MD. (problem is, that right now, not all of the MD forms seem to be available, so maybe wait until late Feb to continue thru #2 and #3)
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3) After the MD part-year is done....MO does things a bit differently. For a part-year resident, MO allows you to either:
......3 a) File as a full-year MO resident (which taxes ALL your yearly income), BUT then you can take a credit for the taxes you had to pay to MD (which is why MD has to be done first). or
......3b) File as a full year non-resident of MO, but then identify what sub-part of your Federal income was earned after you became a MO resident...thus only the MO wages, any interest, dividends, and Cap Gains too during the end of the year. (No credit is n taken for taxes paid to MD, because you are specifically identifying MO-only income this way)
.................MO lets your file either way 3a) or 3b)...whichever you think is best. I "think" 3b) might be easier if you were only in MO for a short time...but I can't know the entirety of your situation.
Not all of the MO tax forms needed are ready either, so again...maybe late Feb to continue with the State sections.
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____________*Answers are correct to the best of my knowledge when posted, but should not be considered to be legal or official tax advice.*
