Unable to change forms for IT NRC for Ohio

[sondraaf]

Worked in Florida - Retired in Ohio.  Spouse has income in Ohio, None in Florida.  We are both considered part time resident  since moving to Ohio in August.  Unfortunately, Turbotax includes my income for Ohio and says we need to pay and I am unable to remove my spouse from the IT NRC form to show that I had no income. Spouse did not make enough to warrant paying the amount the Ohio Turbo tax form states because it includes my income from Florida.  How do I change the Ohio form?

Thanks

[MaryK4]

You will have to file a Part-Year Resident Ohio tax return and report the wages and retirement income that you received when you were an Ohio resident. Ohio requires the same filing status used on the federal return, with no exceptions.

[Hal_Al]

Q. How do I change the Ohio form?

A.  You don't. TurboTax is doing it correctly.

Ohio does a convoluted tax calculation for non-residents/part year residents. It calculates tax on total income, then it calculates a non resident/part year resident credit, which it subtracts from the tax it calculated on the total income. The credit is calculated as your non-Ohio income divided by Total adjusted Income multiplied by the total tax. TurboTax (TT)   does this by allocating your income as either Ohio or non-Ohio. W-2 income will be allocated by the state name abbreviation shown in box 15 of your W-2. TT will ask you, item by item, in the state section, how much of your other income is Ohio or non-Ohio income. Make sure that your non-Ohio wages show FL (Other state postal abbreviation)  in box 15 of your W-2 screen, with the FL amount in box 16.

Since FL does not have an income tax, boxes 15-17 may be blank on your actual W-2. At the W-2 screen, in TT, enter FL  in box 15. Put the box 1 amount in box 16 and  0 in box 17.