I work PRN for my company. My pay stubs state I have worked only in OR, but my actual work logs show me working mostly in WA. How do get my state income tax back.

[Scorpion1]

At this time of the year, I would just go for whatever the W2 says, forget about Pay stubs, if you still have doubts about your residency and work status, talk to your HR and clarify before filing.

[alex-rittenbach]

I live in Washington, worked in Washington, but my pay stubs having me listed as working in OR so my W-2 will show that i worked in Oregon. Is this something I can itemize myself or will it just look like I'm evading paying state income tax? Should I just call the IRS hot line and submit my pay stubs and my work log proving where and when I worked?

[Scorpion1]

Like I said earlier, I would contact my Company's HR First instead of calling IRS, to ask question, why OR? once I get a satisfactory answer, the Tax Return should be filed having multi State option then or vise versa.

[alex-rittenbach]

I actually did that and they said ask a tax advisor.  On the IRS's web page it give an 1800 number for reporting income tax issues that include not enough income tax withheld or to much withheld. I am trying to see if I can do it myself. My company just changed my current location to WA, but didn't do anything further to amend the fact that my location still appears to be OR, so I am concluding that my tax advisor is the IRS. 

[Scorpion1]

Well that's weird the way your company keeps changing your location without you being there or been there -)

So lets see what the W2 shows, if it has some withholding with the OR State income then file it, at least you will not pay anything and get a refund but if you owe, then call the IRS.

[alex-rittenbach]

My pay stubs state that over the last year have worked in one location at one site in Or, my labor log show that I have worked in WA all except for 3 weeks (estimate) in OR. My state income tax with held should be like 350 dollars not 4,000 dollars which is shows. 

[JulieS]

You should get your employer to correct your W-2 form for you. 

You can file an Oregon non-resident form and use your figures to show your earnings in Oregon, but if what you report doesn't match the W-2 form that gets filed, Oregon will contact you about the difference.

Don't try to contact the IRS about this, it is a state tax issue and the only one who can correct this is your employer, since they are the ones who did it wrong in the first place.