Will it automatically seperate my Florida refund from my Ohio refund ?

[DanielV01]

Not exactly sure what you're asking, but I'd like to assist.  Could you provide more detail on the Florida refund, because most of the time Florida does not have a tax return?

[latisha727]

I lived & worked in Florida from Jan. -June. 2018 I moved too Ohio july- current. Im putting both on here & I wanna make sure they seperate the states. Refunds

[DanielV01 · Accepted solution]

Yes, in a way of speaking, your Florida income is separated from your Ohio return.  All of your income is included on your Federal return no matter where you made it.  Your Florida income is not taxed in Florida and you should not need to file a return for Florida (no tax and no refund).  Ohio, however, has a bit of a complicated way of figuring out tax.

Ohio calculates tax on all of your income.  Then, it will calculate how much tax you would have paid in Ohio on the income in Florida, and then issues a credit for that amount.  Thus, the "Florida income's Ohio tax" is subtracted from the overall tax, and what is left is the amount of tax you pay to Ohio.  Your income from Florida is not taxed in Ohio, but it is used to determine how much tax you will pay in Ohio.

[Hal_Al]

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 FL (Other state postal abbreviation)  in box 15 of your W-2 screen, with the FL amount in box 16.

Since TX does not have an income tax, boxes 15-17 may be blank on your actual W-2. But at the W-2 screen, in TT, fill in boxes 15 & 16.

This system allows Ohio to apply their highest tax rate, based on your total income, while only taxing your Ohio income.