Q8-tax_comm
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State tax filing

Thanks for the follow-up response MaryK4.  Well, I thought I was clear on what to do after your 1st response.  Given a) my wife physically works in western NY, approximately 7 hours away from her company's HQ in CT, and b) our discussion about "state source income" is most of the time related to the location of where the work is performed (in this case, NY), I felt pretty good about showing CT source income as $0.  However, in your 2nd response, you attached a link to "how does working remotely affect my state taxes?"... and in that link, I found the following statement "Connecticut, Delaware, Nebraska, New York, and Pennsylvania, follow an employer “convenience rule” which taxes you where your employer’s office is, even if that is not the state you are actually working in."  Since CT and NY are the 2 states involved in our situation, does the initial guidance to show CT source income as $0 still apply?  Unless I'm misinterpreting the reference linked to the 2nd response, the link comes across as CT being the source income state ("where your employer's office is").  I apologize for not understanding clearly.  Thanks for sticking with me on this.