I spend most of the year in California, where I live, work, and get my W2, whereas my wife lives in our Hawaiian house. How do I select the two State residencies?

[dturboklee]

I have lived and worked in California for 4 years but could only declare partial year residency the year I moved there. I select CA as my residency and HI as my wife's but TurboTax CD Premier chooses the NR forms for both states. This has never been clearly addressed in TurboTax.

[TomD8]

Be aware of these Hawaii tax rules:

"A nonresident must file an Individual Income Tax Return—Nonresident and Part-Year Resident (Form N-15), if required to do so.   A nonresident will be taxed on income from Hawaii sources only. A nonresident married to a Hawaii resident may choose to file a joint return with the resident spouse on Form N-11; however, the nonresident will then be taxed on all income from all sources."

See "Nonresident" on page 5 of this reference:

https://files.hawaii.gov/tax/forms/2020/n11ins.pdf

And from California:

"If you filed a joint tax return and either you or your spouse/RDP was a nonresident for 2020, file Form 540NR, California Nonresident or Part-Year Resident Income Tax Return."

https://www.ftb.ca.gov/forms/2020/2020-540-booklet.html#filing-status-requirements