Getting past the "did you live in another state" question for 2017

[JTBDTB]

I am doing 2017 taxes and am a Maryland resident.

In 2017 I lived in NY for half the year then returned to Maryland for the second half of the year. How do I get past the question in setup "Did I Live In Another State in 2017?"

Then it asks for the date I became a Maryland resident? The answer to that question was 1956. The software insists the answer must be 2017. That is wrong, as I kept my Maryland home, even though I lived in NY, also kept my Maryland drivers license and everything else to do with Maryland. I was in a hotel in NY for half a year.

Please help. How do I get past this question?

Thank you.

[xmasbaby0]

The question is not asking for your life history.  It is asking about the specific tax year you are filing a tax return for.  So when in 2017 did you resume living in MD?  The software needs to know that so it can calculate how much of your income is taxable in each of the states you were in during 2017.

[xmasbaby0]

It may help if you provide some additional information.  Why were you in NY for half the year, living in a hotel?  Were you there on a temporary assignment for the MD employer?  A NY employer?  A half year visit to NY?  

[JTBDTB]

I had to work in the Albany area for a while.

Then became seriously ill and could no longer perform my job, after which I returned home and lost that job.

...Just recalled it was a Virginia office of a Minnesota I had worked for since 2013. 

[JTBDTB]

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@xmasbaby0 wrote:

The question is not asking for your life history.  It is asking about the specific tax year you are filing a tax return for.  So when in 2017 did you resume living in MD?  The software needs to know that so it can calculate how much of your income is taxable in each of the states you were in during 2017.

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Alright, thank you for that. Understanding the perspective is helpful.