I am filing as a nonresident of New York where I earned income for part of the year. Why is my state income including income from all states when calculating the NY tax?

[jwebb186]

My NY state income tax calculator is including income from NY & TX when I only lived in TX for the year.  It should only calculate tax on the portion of income I earned in NY, right?

[ErnieS0 · Accepted solution]

New York and many other states include your total income when calculating your tax rate. However, you are only taxed on the amount of money you actually earned in New York — you just end up being taxed at the same rate as if you earned everything in NY.

For example, if you earned $100,000 total and $30,000 in NY, your tax rate would be based on $100,000. Say the NY tax on $100,000 is $10,000. Then your tax would be 30% ($30,000/$100,000) of $10,000 or $3,000.

Your tax return is correct if the amount in the right column of IT-203 only includes NY income. The computation and allocation appear on page 3 on lines 45 and 46.

• On the screen New York Income Allocation, answer NO to Were all of your wages and/or self-employment income earned in New York State?
• On Your Form W-2 Summary, tap Edit next to your employer
• On Allocate Wages to New York, choose an allocation method (days or percentage)
• On Tell us about your New York resident income, enter the amount you earned while living in New York
• On Tell us about your New York nonresident income, enter the amount you received while living outside New York (this would be $0 if you moved and did not earn any NY income after the move)

[jwebb186]

Thank you! Very helpful.