Why is my state income from box 16 on my W2 divided by TurboTax in two jobs.

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January 29, 2025
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I have one job in Massachusetts. My state income is listed in box 16 of my W-2. TurboTax has divided it into two employers.

jeff-magenauAuthor

Level 2

p.s. This is the Massachusetts non-resident return, income apportionment feature - where you apportion income between working days in- and out- of Massachusetts. I have one job in MA; none out of state. Somehow, TurboTax has divided my taxable federal income (W2 box 1) into my job (i.e., employer name) and "Income from Non-Taxing States." There is no other income from a non-taxing state. There is no other income at all. This problem is disallowing an electronic filing of the state return.

AmyC

Level 15

I think you are saying that it is 100% taxable to MA and there are no circumstances where you worked outside of MA for it to be non-taxable. In that case, select No to apportion your wages.

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jeff-magenauAuthor

Level 2

No, this is what I am saying: I live in New Hampshire and have one job in Massachusetts. I work in my company's MA office two days a week; and from my home office in NH three days a week. My company does *not* withhold on this basis - they withhold as though I work every day in MA. As such, I myself apportion my wages based on in- and out-of-state working days as permitted on the MA Nonresident/Part-Year Tax Return, Form 1-NR/PY, line 13. I have been doing this for several years (through TurboTax). However, *this* year, TurboTax created two buckets of income for my MA return. One identified by my employer, and the other as "Income from Non-Taxing State." There is no other income at all, let alone from a non-taxing state. I can tell where the numbers came from: TurboTax took the difference between my federal taxable wages in Box 1 of my W2 and my MA taxable wages in Box 16 and called it "Income from Non-Taxing State." According to TurboTax, this is preventing me from electronically filing my federal and state return via TurboTax. Nobody wants to print and mail a return anymore, especially when paying TurboTax for the state return.