If I worked in NY and PA and live in NJ and am now completing my NJ Resident portion where Nj Jersey says i made double 79,000 and i am being taxed duplicate Should I remove NY

[stylo09]

If I worked in NY and PA and live in NJ and am now completing my NJ Resident portion where Nj Jersey says i made 79,000 and i am being taxed duplicate Should I remove NY. The amount shown in NJ is the amount I made in NY, can i remove that from my NJ resident section when it asks if i have any duplicates. in the summary it says i made 79000 in wages but i only made 39,474. help. 

[DianeW777]

Yes, remove the New York (NY) wages (and possibly the Pennsylvania (PA) | see below) because they are being included twice on New Jersey (NJ).  NJ requires you to pay tax on all of your worldwide income as a resident.

You have two situations happening on your NJ resident return.  

1. NY will not provide any relief or refund of the tax liability, meaning you must pay tax on the wages you earned in NY.  NJ will give you a credit for the taxes you paid to NY on the same income. You should prepare NY first.  This is called credit for taxes paid to another state or other state tax credit, depending on your state return.
2. PA and NJ are reciprocal states.  This means PA will refund any tax that was withheld and paid to PA.  If you did NOT have any PA state withholding you do not need to file a PA return.  If you did, then you will receive a full refund.
   • If the wages for PA shown in your image are part of/included in the wages shown for NJ you should also remove them for the NJ return.

[stylo09]

Thanks. I already filed my NY and PA as non residents and have minimal credit refund on both. Nj was the only one showing as owing and in the summary listing my total wages for all three states as wages twice. I will delete the other states as suggested from the NJ state portion.

My new question is for the federal section i only listed one w2 being the NJ w2 should i add each individual w2 on the federal side including the pa and ny one and my nj and ny one have the total wages  from all three states listed in box 16 meaning my nj and ny both list 39,000 as my total wages. while i only made 26,000 in ny and the rest in nj and pa. how can i address this while filing?

[DianeW777]

Enter one W-2 and then enter the total wages earned in the NJ state wage box with the NJ withholding. Be sure to use the credit for taxes paid to another state for NY only.  Review the NY return, line 50, Form IT203 for the total tax liability (not refund or balance due).

• NJ Credit for Income Taxes Paid to Other Jurisdictions

@stylo09 

[stylo09]

Thank you, when it comes to the credit mine is showing the following but on line 17 of the ny portion of my w2 it says 1081 so do i out the state tax in lime 17 in the credit line where it says 660?

[MarilynG1]

The $660 tax paid to New York should represent what you owed in tax on your New York Non-Resident return, not the tax you paid to NY from your W-2.  You're probably getting a refund from NY for the difference. 

You can check your NY return to verify this.  That's why it's recommended to complete Non-Resident returns first, so TurboTax can transfer the amounts to your Resident return for you. 

Here's more info on How to File a Non-Resident State Return.

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