I get how my tax situation works regarding my nonresidency filing status with California. My concern is with how my wife's situation affects mine. I paid taxes to California so to get it back I need to file a nonresident return, but as soon as I begin to fill out my state tax portion as MFS (after filing federally as MFJ) turbotax flags me to do community property adjustments. In the process of doing the adjustments I no longer get my entire taxes back from California because now half of the taxes I paid are considered my wife's taxes (who should be considered a nonresident, not working in California).
My question is: am I filing my state taxes incorrectly? Should I just file jointly state as well to get my California taxes back or am I doing the community property adjustments wrong and don't need to add state taxes into that?
