My employer withheld tax for Arkansas by mistake and didnt correct W2. I don't care about recovering the withholdings.Do I have an obligation to file a tax return in AR?

[heggly]

I work for a company where we need to fill a timesheet every day. By mistake, I have coded 5 hours to the state of Arkansas, where I have never been. My employer refused to correct my w2 form and some taxes were withheld for this state. It was not much, so I don't care about recovering the withholding taxes. Do I have an obligation to file a nonresident tax return in Arkansas? 

[MaryK1 · Accepted solution]

No, if you did not have Arkansas source income (from working in Arkansas) you do not have to file if you do not want to get the incorrect withholding back.

[Eric129]

I have this same issue except the state is CA and there were no tax withholdings. It was only around $200 in wages, so I guess the tax on that is around $2? What should I do?

[Vanessa A]

Since your income was only around $200 you do not need to file a CA return. 

Part-year resident and nonresident

[Eric129]

Okay, thank you! Is that because I don't need to pay CA state taxes if wages are below a certain amount? I read the link you sent but didn't see that explicitly explained. Thank so much

[BrittanyS]

Yes, since your income is below the filing requirement for CA, you do not have to file a CA tax return.  See the charts below explaining the income requirements for each filing status:

See the link below, to view the complete chart:

• Part-year resident and nonresident

@Eric129