NH resident working multple locations for a Mass company

[Craztech11]

I am a service technician working for a Massachusetts based company. I live in NH and work all over the place in New England. I want to know if I should be paying mass taxes on hours worked in NH? If I shouldn't and I have been is there anyways to get that back when I file. How would I calculate how many hours vs how much taxes I paid on that time?

[TomD8 · Accepted solution]

"I want to know if I should be paying mass taxes on hours worked in NH?"

No, you should not.

Since you are a non-resident of MA, you are subject to MA income tax only on income you earn from work you actually (physically) perform within Massachusetts.

If you did carry on a part of your work within Massachusetts, then you need to pro-rate your income in order to determine the portion taxable by MA.  You can use any common-sense method to do the pro-rate.  Example: Total workdays for the year = 200; MA workdays = 20; then 20/200 or 10% of your income is taxable by MA.

If the amount of MA tax withheld from your pay exceeds your MA taxes due, then MA will send you a refund.

[Craztech11]

Thank you for the quick response. 

How would I file this? What part of the mass form would be where I inform them of this?

What I have is time sheets from each week with where I was working so i have proof and the ability to calculate. 

As of right now I am paying mass taxes on all income. 

[TomD8 · Accepted solution]

In the Personal Info section of TurboTax, you'll be asked if you had income from other states.  Answer Yes and then indicate that the other state was MA.  This will prompt the program to generate a non-resident MA state income tax form.  As you enter your information into that form, you'll be asked to enter your MA-taxable income.  Then just proceed through the TT program to complete your MA tax return.  The program will calculate your MA taxes due or your MA refund amount.

The same process would apply for any other states in which you worked outside of NH.