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State tax filing
Thanks, Bill.
All of my tax withholdings were for Maine, my W-2 lists Maine, and my company is based in Maine, but I have lived in Arizona since July, and Arizona is my legal residence. I do not work in Maine.
I filled out state taxes for Maine for a partial resident. They asked what amount of my income was from my time in Maine, and I did the math and entered it. Then they asked was amount of my Arizona income was from Maine-based sources, and I entered 100% (because I am being paid by a Maine company). This leads to me paying a lot of taxes in Maine, and no taxes in Arizona whatsoever. To me, this goes against what I've read online about working remotely, which is that you pay taxes in the state where you live, not the state where your company is based. (It also means I pay much higher taxes, since Maine has a higher income tax than Arizona.)
Does this all sound right to you? Should I be doing anything differently?