I'm trying to file nonresident state tax forms for Colorado and South Carolina (I traveled for work in 2019 and had to bill hours to those states). My resident state is Illinois.
When I try to add a state return for Colorado and SC, turbotax automatically pulls from my federal return and is saying I paid $0 taxes in these states, when I have state filing copies that show that I indeed did pay taxes in these states.
How do I manually enter my state forms without turbotax automatically pulling incorrect information?
If your wages or withholding didn't transfer to your state return, go back to your W-2:
Thanks!! This works for my resident state, IL, but what if I have two other states that I need to file for as well? It seems like turbotax is not recognizing that I've already paid taxes to those states when it automatically pulls in information
To properly make sure you receive the credits in your resident state, prepare your non-resident states first and then your resident state last. if you have done the opposite, you may need to delete your state returns and then prepare them in the proper order so you can receive credit for the tax you paid in those states.
Even when I do it in this order, I get this explanation of my Colorado numbers. However, my state W2 shows that I paid $40 in colorado already. A similar situation is happening in SC, where it is saying I paid $0, but I paid $930. This is causing me to have tax due in these states when I don't believe I should.