Thanks for the reply @ErnieS0 . We use Vista (work software) and what my payroll department was referring to is a note, from the software that says "box 16 match the wages in box 1 for all North Carolina residents". This language is not in the NC statute. NC-30 states that all North Carolina residents must show wages earned in NC and other states. However, I was not a NC resident while working in Virginia for the first six months of the year - I was a Virginia resident...
With regards to the TurboTax program, it will allow me to change the box, to reflect NC wages earned (PY Resident), but if I do anything else like review my return, it will revert back to the original amount and show that I owe NC more tax than I should. When I look for more help on it, it comes back as we need to file for a NC tax credit (since taxes were taken out by VA) and when I complete that portion, the taxes owed to NC is correct. Again, I don't believe this is correct, because when VA took taxes from me, I was not a North Carolina resident...
