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If your permanent home (your "domicile") is in KY, you have to file a KY tax return no matter what.
Whether or not you also have to file an Ohio tax return depends:
If you spent more than 212 nights in Ohio in 2016, Ohio will consider you a resident for tax purposes, and you'd also have to file an Ohio tax return (in addition to your KY return). http://www.tax.ohio.gov/ohio_individual/individual/residency_status.aspx
If you spent fewer than 212 nights in Ohio, and your income from Ohio consists entirely of W-2 wages, you would be considered a non-resident of Ohio, and you would not have to file an Ohio return. That's because KY and OH have tax reciprocity for W-2 wages. Your wages would be taxable only by KY. (In your case, however, you would have to file an OH return showing zero OH income, in order to receive a refund of the withheld OH taxes.)
If you are a legal non-resident of OH by the definition above, you should submit this form to the Ohio tax authority: http://www.tax.ohio.gov/portals/0/forms/ohio_individual/individual/2016/PIT_ITDA.pdf
Finally, if you never lived in or worked in Illinois, you don't have to file an Illinois tax return. The fact that your employer is located there is irrelevant.
If your permanent home (your "domicile") is in KY, you have to file a KY tax return no matter what.
Whether or not you also have to file an Ohio tax return depends:
If you spent more than 212 nights in Ohio in 2016, Ohio will consider you a resident for tax purposes, and you'd also have to file an Ohio tax return (in addition to your KY return). http://www.tax.ohio.gov/ohio_individual/individual/residency_status.aspx
If you spent fewer than 212 nights in Ohio, and your income from Ohio consists entirely of W-2 wages, you would be considered a non-resident of Ohio, and you would not have to file an Ohio return. That's because KY and OH have tax reciprocity for W-2 wages. Your wages would be taxable only by KY. (In your case, however, you would have to file an OH return showing zero OH income, in order to receive a refund of the withheld OH taxes.)
If you are a legal non-resident of OH by the definition above, you should submit this form to the Ohio tax authority: http://www.tax.ohio.gov/portals/0/forms/ohio_individual/individual/2016/PIT_ITDA.pdf
Finally, if you never lived in or worked in Illinois, you don't have to file an Illinois tax return. The fact that your employer is located there is irrelevant.
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