Remote work during COVID and New York IT-203

[TaxBuddy2021]

Hoping for some assistance in correctly filling out New York IT-203. 

Got some help on this forum earlier on my situation. Work and live in CA for CA company. During 2020 could work remote. So I spent some time with family in 2 other states for about a month each and worked remotely (~ 20 working days in each). I returned home to CA after. I did not change my withholding during this time and my W2 only has CA on it, but I understand based on the advice here that I should be filling nonresident state taxes for tax owed to these two states (both have state income tax). 

One of the other two states I worked in temporarily is NY. I understand the NY days allocation method is the one I use, but I'm not sure what numbers I should be entering in the screens in Turbotax. The first asks for my employer and the "New York State Wages". Am I supposed to enter my full year wages here even though it says "New York State"? It seems to suggest that this amount should already be just the New York amount, but I need to enter my total here in order to get to the next screen which allows me to allocate based on days from whatever number is entered.

Further, part of my annual wages includes a bonus paid earlier in the year not during the time that I was in NY, and so it doesn't seem like it should be something that gets allocated as part of the days allocation method. Should I subtract that from my total wages before I enter it and allocate?

What numbers do I need to enter here? Is this the correct course of action?

[Cynthiad66]

Yes remove the Bonus.

NY is one of those states, like California, where they use 100% of your income to do their calculations.  However, in the end it is usually just the income earned in NY that is actually taxed.

You can choose not to exclude some income.  See the last choice.

Make sure you finish your non-resident state return prior to starting your residence or the credit for taxes paid to other states calculation will be problematic.  make sure your home state return is last.  Don't forget that income for dividend, interest, cap gains, should be removed from the NY column when doing the NY return as those income items are only resident state (exceptions may be for stock options earned income may be allocated to work state).

[TaxBuddy2021]

@Cynthiad66 thanks for the response. Follow-up question.

Can you help me understand what I should actually be entering in the screen? The bonus is included in my W2 Wages section. So when I am in the first screenshot which asks me to "Enter Wage Information" should I take my total wages from my W2 and subtract the bonus amount? 

For example: Do If my total wages is 200K and my bonus is 25K do I put 175K in that box and then proceed with the days by calculation based on that amount?

For the second screen, I don't think I should be choosing the last choice which is just to exclude all the income I entered in the previous screen.

[DawnC]

You can do it either way as long as you end up apportioning the income you earned while in NY as NY sourced income.  The bonus does not need to be allocated to NY, so you can subtract it out and then allocate based on days.   If you have figured out the amount that should be allocated to NY, you can enter that amount as NY income and then choose ''don't allocate this employer''.     CA is going to tax all of it and then issue you a credit for the taxes you pay to NY.   This will ensure you are not double-taxed on any of the income.  But you only need to include the income from the days you were in NY on the NY return.   

Do I need to file a nonresident return for an out-of-state employer?