My spouse and I both lived in GA for all of 2018. Her employer withheld state income tax in VA (we lived in VA part of the year in 2017, they simply didn't update the withholding tax state). I'm not sure how to reflect this for tax purposes. In TaxSlayer, I've started a nonresident return for VA in order to get a refund of the income tax paid and entered $0 for the income (in VA) then entered the total state income tax, but doing this results in a $0 refund, which isn't what I was expecting. Along with that, I've tried to report all her income on the GA state return (with $0 income tax paid), but of course I don't have an "Employer's State ID No." for GA because no GA income tax was withheld by her employer, so I'm not sure how to handle that. I've seen a suggestion online that this ID doesn't necessarily matter and I can just use something arbitrary like "1111111111" if I need to, not sure how accurate that is though. I'd started down this route on TaxSlayer, but when I attempted enter the credit for taxes paid to another state for the GA return, the service did not pull any info (income, VA taxes paid, etc.) automatically so I feel like I'm doing something wrong.
My questions:
1) Is all of the above pointless and do we instead need to request a W2C from her employer? Not sure about this because they've presumably already remitted the VA income tax to the state so I don't know how this would work exactly...
2) Am I on the right track filing the nonresident VA return showing no income+income tax paid, then the GA return showing income+no income tax paid? If so, shouldn't I be seeing a refund from VA? What would I use for the Employer's State ID # in GA if so?
3) Should I be trying to claim a credit in GA for taxes paid in VA, or is this an entirely separate credit I'm misunderstanding that's not applicable to our situation?
Thank you in advance!
Submitted January 29, 2019 at 09:52AM by jgoose451 http://bit.ly/2CTGgYa
