DanielV01
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State tax filing

Yes.  You will need to allocate your income for the amount of income you actually earned in Oregon.  While there are states that treat telecommuters (if that is how you're working in Washington for the company) as still working in their state, Oregon is not one of them.  So you will be able to allocate, or split, the amount of income that you work in Washington (good idea since there's no state tax there) and Oregon.  There's a good chance that Oregon will ask for substantiation on this, so make sure you have records to send them when they do).

You will look for the screen Oregon source Income and Adjustments.  You will enter the amount of income you physically worked in Oregon.  How do you determine this?  Use the following information, taken from Oregon Publication 17 (guideline to tax laws):

When you count the number of days you actually worked in Oregon and the number of days you actually  worked everywhere, don’t include holidays, vacation days, or sick days. These aren’t days that you actually worked. Your employer paid you for these days based on the days you worked. However, include your sick pay, holiday pay, and vacation pay in total wages. (Italics added, bolding original)

Use this formula to determine total wages taxable by Oregon:

Days actually worked in Oregon (divided by) Total days actually worked everywhere wages (multiplied by) Total wages = Oregon wages (Format modified from orignial publication)

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