If I am a resident in georgia but most of my income was from alabama, should I be paying taxes on most of my alabama income

[p_jolly]

our agi was 153K, we are Georgia residents but 87k of our income was earned in alabama, on my Georgia return it is showing 132K of Georgia income. is this correct.

Not sure why I would have to pay Georgia income tax and alabama income tax on monies earned

[DanielV01 · Accepted solution]

Yes, both states are allowed to tax your income.  Alabama may tax the income you earn working in Alabama, whereas your resident state (Georgia) is allowed to tax all of your income.  To reduce the effect of this double-taxation, your resident state will give you a credit for the taxes you pay to your non-resident state.

You will want to make sure that this credit is being calculated on your Georgia return.  It is recommended to prepare your nonresident return first, so that the credit for taxes paid to Alabama may transfer over to the Georgia return.  However, if you did not do this, then review the Credit for taxes paid to another state section of the Georgia return.  To calculate the credit, enter in the amount of income you earned in Alabama, then the tax liability for Alabama.  The tax liability is the amount of Alabama tax withheld minus Alabama refund, or in addition to Alabama tax due.  If what you saw owed to Georgia was a particularly large amount, these steps should lower it (and perhaps eliminate it).