topic Income in non-resident state in State tax filing

Income in non-resident state

reread — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 22:44:47 GMT

I live and work in California. A small portion of my income is from a Fellowship for work I do with Ohio University. I have received a W-2 from Ohio University with California taxes withheld. There were no taxes withheld for Ohio. On what form and line do I report my Ohio University earning on the Ohio tax return ?

Re: Income in non-resident state

MaryK4 — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 01:37:14 GMT

If you did not work in Ohio, you do not have to report the income to Ohio as a nonresident.

Re: Income in non-resident state

reread — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 02:43:30 GMT

I did work in Ohio which is why I received a W-2 from Ohio University.

Re: Income in non-resident state

Hal_Al — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 12:52:45 GMT

If you physically worked in Ohio, you file an Ohio non-resident tax form. It's the same form residents use, you just check the non resident box (TurboTax [TT] does that for you). It goes on line 1, column (B) of IT NRC
Ohio Nonresident Credit Calculation. TT does that for you.

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. Make sure that your non-Ohio wages show CA in box 15 of your W-2 screen, with the CA amount in box 16.

If your employer did not break down your W-2 between OH and CA, you'll have to do that manually, making two entries on lines 15-20.

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

https://tax.ohio.gov/static/forms/ohio_individual/individual/2022/itnrc.pdf

Re: Income in non-resident state

reread — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 22:11:12 GMT

Thank you for your detailed explanation. It was extremely helpful.