The obvious answer is that I must have entered something in wrong somewhere but I've redone it over and over and can't figure out what the issue is. Meanwhile, I entered the EXACT SAME INFORMATION over on HR Block and got the expected and correct numbers (based on common sense and very similar numbers I had last year). I would just file my taxes over at HR Block but I stupidly already paid for TurboTax and I don't want to pay again if I can avoid it. (They wont give me a refund. I already asked.)
My tax situation this year is fairly straightforward. I lived and worked in the same state all year (Michigan), at the same company. The only complication is that I gambled at a casino in a neighboring state (Wisconsin) and won three times, which added up to about $5,000 total in winnings (each win was just barely over the taxable amount). The casino I won at withheld state and federal taxes at my request each time I won because I didn't want to have to deal with paying in at tax time. I did not otherwise live in or earn any income in Wisconsin, and yet TurboTax somehow thinks I owe Wisconsin over $1,700 in state taxes. This is laughably wrong. I won a very similar amount at the exact same casino last year and ended up getting a $300 refund from Wisconsin. HR Block thinks I should be getting a $200 refund this year, which is about what I expected. There is no possible way I should owe $1,700 on $5,000 worth of wins, especially since I already paid the taxes on it when I won it.
I just can't figure out where the error is, or if it's even on my end. I literally copied and pasted the information I entered into TurboTax onto HR Block so the numbers are identical; the federal tax refund matches, the Michigan tax owed matches, but TurboTax insists I owe Wisconsin $1,700+ while HR Block thinks Wisconsin should refund me $200+. I fiddled with different options on TurboTax and the only thing that makes my amount owed go away is removing the 3 W-2G (gambling winning) forms I filled out for Wisconsin. I suspect there's either an error somewhere on these forms (even though I've gone over them a dozen times now and can't find anything) or TurboTax thinks I lived in or worked in Wisconsin at some point even though I made sure to select that I absolutely did not at every opportunity they gave me.
Another weird thing going on (that could be part of the problem?) is that when I'm prompted to enter how much of my total gambling winnings were won in Wisconsin vs. Michigan and click to go to the next page, it just takes me back to the exact same page, with the number I just entered still there. I have to click again to get to a different page. Weird. I'm re-reading this twin page now to make sure I'm not missing anything and as far as I can tell, I'm not. It's the exact same page. I wonder if it's some kind of glitch or maybe I'm losing my mind because I've been staring at these numbers and boxes for 6 hours trying to figure out a problem that may not even be fixable on my end.
