Can't e-file Illinois return when the sum of Illinois wages plus out of state wages on all W-2s does not equal total wages reports on IL Schedule CR?

[AmyC]

Il is your resident state and all income is reported to IL with a credit given for other states taxing money. Review your w2 and state forms to find the discrepancy.

Let's say you made $100,000 total last year. You worked out of state is state A and made $20,000 State B made $35,000. Your Schedule CR would show $55,000 plus the other $45,000 made in IL adds up to $100,000 for total wages reported on IL.

[Mtang78]

The Illinois Schedule CR (credit for tax paid to other states) I think is where the problem exists. Column A, Line 1 comes from the Federal Form 1040 Line 1z and is the total of all the wages. Column B is the Non-Illinois Portion which, in this case, is for the Missouri wages. However, the Missouri wages are already in Column A that auto-populates from the Federal form 1040. Am I supposed to override/adjust Column A that is the total of all of the wages and remove the Missouri wages from this?

[Cherubim]

I'm getting the same message. Filing in IL and MO (IL resident, employer in MO, but they sent 2 versions of @w-2, one with a portion for IL and one for MO as I worked remotely for more than half the year). Initially I entered everything just as it appeared on the W-2's, but because my remote work IL wages were higher than MO, Turbo Tax seemingly had a bug that wouldn't allow me to eFile. It was saying "Form MO-NRI: TP Remote Work Income should not be greater than total Missouri wages entered on your federal return". turbo Tax seemingly had a control where if the employer broke out the wages between 2 states and the non MO state was higher, it throws an error disallowing efiling.

To get past this I updated the IL and MO numbers to be the same as the federal and then just used the MO remote work section to divvy up the income earned while working in MO vs the remote income when I was working remotely in IL. That seemed to correct the error on the MO side, but then it brought about an odd situation the original poster mentioned here - cannot eFile when sum of IL wages plus out of state wages on all W-2's does not equal total wages reports on IL Schedule CR. 

My wife had a similar situation where her employer is in MO and she did remote work in 2024, BUT that employer put all of the income in MO and only took out MO taxes. The system seemed to have no issue with that.

Seems Turbo Tax has some work to do in coding their system to properly handle when an employer monitors in which state work happens and issues multiple W-2's to address it. Or they at least need to give us some sort of workaround that still allows us to eFile. Now it looks like I have to manually file my IL return.

[Mike9241]

there is no reciprocity between the two states. assuming you both were full-year Illinois residents, the MO wages are taxable in IL. to avoid )complete) double taxation what IL allows is a credit for some or all of the MO taxes paid.   For this to work properly in Turbotax the non-resident state must be done first. 

[Cherubim]

Thank you. Yeah, I did the MO part first. But got to the end of the MO return and it gave me the error that remote work wages could not exceed MO sourced wages. Like it wasn't programmed to be able to handle that situation where the W-2 is broken out into MO and IL where the employer kept track of MO vs IL time and withheld taxes for the proper state throughout the year depending on how much time I worked out of each state AND wages attributable to working in IL exceed those from working in MO.