My husband and I got married last year and this is our first year filing taxes as a married couple. We both live in RI -- I also work there, but he works in Massachusetts. We planned to file our federal return as Married, Filing Jointly. How do we need to file our state taxes --- RI Jointly, MA Separate? Both Separate? Both Jointly?
We started off filing the states separately, but Massachusetts asked for information about my income and then made us provide an explanation of why my income wasn't included as part of the filing. (More than 10% difference between our combined income vs what was being used for the state tax income which would have been my husband's only). This made me rethink whether we need to be filing jointly or not?
