AmyC
Expert Alumni

State tax filing

Try the steps below. When you have both resident and non-resident income, you must fill out the tax forms in a special order.

Your resident state taxes all income but gives a credit for income taxed by another state.  Please carefully follow these directions.

You may need to delete both states and begin again.

 

  1. First, prepare your non-resident  return. This creates your tax liability for the non-resident state.
  2. THEN prepare your resident state return and it will generate a credit for your income already being taxed in the non-resident state.
  3. The credit will be the lower of the state tax liabilities on the same income. You may owe your resident state.

It isn't possible for the program to create a credit before it knows the liability. Your returns may be wrong if you do not prepare the states in this order.

 

If that does not work, enter zero for your resident state wages.

@DaveF1006

 

 

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