OK, three W-2s is not going to work. If you enter all three box 1 amounts, you are going to triple your income.
Why did your employer give your three W-2s? This is not appropriate.
So, ask your employer:
1. Why did they give you three W-2s? The IRS is going to think that they paid you over $200k.
2. Why did they put $4340.75 in box 17 of the first W-2? This is not correct - they did not pay this amount to either state (yes, I realize that it is the sum of the two states' amounts, but you don't report it that way - you report the amounts separately).
3. If they paid you for working on two states over time, why do the box 16 amounts not add up to the box 1 amount? What is the other income (about $5k) that they are not allocating to either state?
Honestly, they have totally fouled this up.
You should have one W-2, with two rows in boxes 15-17, with MD on one row and DC on the other, with the box 16 amounts adding up to the box 1 amount.
Since they have sent copies of this to the IRS, you need to get them to issue a corrected W-2 as I just outlined above, being sure to tell the IRS that the other two W-2s are to be deleted.
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