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My wife lived in Ohio and I lived abroad. She filed in Ohio, but I did not. Ohio made me pay taxes on my foreign income because we filed our federal return jointly.
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In the future, I can only suggest you always file joint for both federal and state, because in my experience for a married couple to file separate will always cost you both more, tax-wise. When a married couple files separate then they both automatically disqualify themselves for a number of deductions and credits they would otherwise qualify for if filing joint.
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It only appears that Ohio is taxing all your income.
Ohio does a convoluted tax calculation for non-residents/part year residents. It calculates tax on total income, then it calculates a non resident/part year resident credit, which it subtracts from the tax it calculated on the total income. The credit is calculated as your non-Ohio income divided by Total adjusted Income multiplied by the total tax. TurboTax (TT) does this by allocating your income as either Ohio or non-Ohio. W-2 income will be allocated by the state name abbreviation shown in box 15 of your W-2. TT will ask you, item by item, in the state section, how much of your other income is Ohio or non-Ohio income.
This system allows Ohio to apply their highest tax rate, based on your total income, while only taxing your Ohio income.
Ohio has a nonresident credit allocation form. IT NRC http://www.tax.ohio.gov/portals/0/forms/ohio_individual/individual/2017/PIT_ITNRC.pdf