When going to prepare state of Oregon Tax's. The Credit for Tax Paid to Another State only provides 4 state choices. However I did pay to Idaho and its not listed.

[bsharpe37]

The list should list all states, not just 4.

[SteamTrain]

Have you prepared your Idaho Nonresident tax forms yet...that may be the issue. All non-resident state forms have to be filled out first.

But Online software can only do 5 total states....so that may be blocking you 4 +Oregon =5 . 

IF that is the case, you may have to be using the desktop software instead...that can do many states.....though only 3 can be e-filed with desktop, and the rest printed and mail-filed.  (well, that was the limit last year.....I haven't checked to se if 3 is still this year's limit)

[JeffreyR77]

Oregon allows Full year residents to claim a credit on an Oregon state tax return for tax paid on the same income taxed by any other state than Arizona, California, Indiana, or Virginia.

Nonresidents may claim a credit on an Oregon return if you paid taxes on the same income to both Oregon AND one of the four states Arizona, California, Indiana, or Virginia. 

That is why you are only seeing 4 states in this view.

Oregon Individual Income Tax Guide (see pg 96 and 97, 2nd column)

[SteamTrain]

@JeffreyR77   

OK......one has to be careful about whether @bsharpe37  is an Oregon resident, or a non-resident of Oregon

He/she hasn't been clear as to whether he/she is an OR resident or not..

.................But...if an OR resident cannot claim a credit for taxes paid to those four states, when the OR resident worked in any of those 4 states as a non-resident.  OR has a reverse credit situation with those four....taxes are paid to OR on everything from those four if the OR resident worked in any of them as a nonresident, and then the OR resident takes a credit on the non-resident tax return for any of those four states  .

Any other of the many states the OR resident worked in, the nonresident state gets to tax what income they had in that state first, then the OR resident takes a credit on the OR tax return.

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Granted, if the OR interview is asking about any of those four states, the OR tax return would actually be asking about any of them to eliminate them from taking the credit in the OR file...I don't have the OR software so I can't see how the OR interview words that particular set of questions.

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But if bsharpe37 is a nonresident of OR...then this protracted explanation is wasted time & effort.