1. The program pulls all income from every state for your resident state return. Therefore, MA state doesn't need to be there.
2. You don't need to add income to the resident state. For the nonresident state, you allocate income as a nonresident. The state name does matter to make the allocation.
3. Since you have MA income and tax withheld on your w2. You do want MA listed on the federal entry with the state and the withholding, the income part is the variable. Since the program pulls all state income from the w2 and marks it as resident state income, you need to subtract out the extra and only use MA income for what is left to finish creating the state income for MA. It sounds like MA with zero income plus the tax withheld may be the solution.
I am thinking that filing your federal return and one correct state might be smart. Then save a copy of those. Change the federal entry screens on the w2 and file the rest.
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