Q. Do I pay my state income tax to only one state or is there a way to claim 40% of my income to SC & 60% of my income to NC?
A. There is a way to claim 40% of your income to SC. And that is how it should be done.
You will have to manually calculate the amount (the 40%) that you allocate to SC. But, you claim 100% of you income on your NC return. You then claim a credit for the tax you paid to SC. As a result there should be little or duplicate tax paid (sometimes the credit does not calculate as 100% of the tax paid to the work state).
