Graduate student in MD from another state but working in both states.

[Notbill]

I am a graduate student in MD, in-person, but my voter registration, permanent address and license are still all from Pennsylvania. I also have a full-time remote job in PA.

The school also pays me as a graduate student to do research and TA. I have W2s from both MD and PA. While filing, it shows that I owe taxes to both states. Looks like my income is being double taxed.

Since i do spend a lot of time in MD do I just have to file for both states and pay the tax bill? Or does me being a student allow me for any kind of exemption since my technical permanent residency is till PA?

I should note that the income made in MD is not even over the standard deduction of $14,000.

[Vanessa A]

If you are a PA resident, then you would file taxes in PA, not MD.  PA and MD have a reciprocal agreement that applies to anyone who lives in the one state and works in the other.  This means that whichever state you live in is the state you pay taxes in.  So if MD did not withhold taxes from your income, then you would not need to file an MD return.

Since PA does not have a standard deduction and pretty much everyone with earned income has to file a return, you will need to file a PA return. 

If you are filing a MD return to get a refund of taxes withheld, you will enter $0 as your income earned in the state and leave the amount withheld as the amount withheld. 

[Notbill]

Hello. Thank you for the reply. 

Here are the issues I am running into:

I am a PA resident since I am registered to vote in PA and my permanent address is in PA. However, I was reading the statutory resident deisgnation for Maryland.

I make money from jobs in both states and I do rent an apartment from graduate school housing on a 12 month lease so I have somewhere to live in MD. My concern is that this technically makes me a statutory resident of MD meaning I have to file as a MD resident as well as a PA resident?