bswanston1993
Returning Member

State tax filing

@SteamTrain Thank you, and apologies for my sparse information. I was trying to avoid including any personal info, but it's tough to provide enough context without it.

 

My "Part-Year Resident Income Allocations" page is as you suggested -- all 0s in the "North Carolina Income While Nonresident" column.

 

However, I believe the section that messed things up was "Wages Allocation." This page prompts: "Enter the code to indicate the status of the following wages. Choose 'Not NC Source Income' if the income was not earned while a resident, and/or not from an NC source."

 

The rest of the page lists my wages (two W-2s and two 1099s) and asks me to designate each as either "NC Resident Income," "NR NC Source Income," "PY NC Source Income," or "Not NC Source Income." There is no key to help me understand what each option means. I earned the income reported on both of my 1099s and one of my W-2s while I was a resident of North Carolina, so I designated each of those as "NC Resident Income." But then the taxable percentage of my income ends up being more than 100%. That shouldn't be possible, should it?

If I leave the designations blank for each of my income sources, my taxes owed cuts in half. So confusing.