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Live in NH, remote work 4 days a week

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February 6, 2024
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So I live in NH and work remotely 4 days a week. I work 1 day a week in MA. It comes to about 300 hours a year that I physically work in MA. Not really sure how to do this with TurboTax Online. Has anyone done this before? This will be the first year that I do this since the COVID/remote work restrictions have lapsed. For the last few years even though I have worked remote, I have just claimed that all of my working wages have been in MA.

AmyC

Employee

You do need to file the MA return and you will allocate income within the program. Follow these steps:

Go through MA and you will see How MA handles income for Nonresidents
Continue
Apportion your wages?
Yes
You will see your employer and wages, select Edit
Select the method you want to use - click Learn more in the program if you need help, it sounds like you are working days.
Continue
Enter your information - in your case 300 hours is 37.5 days and we know 1 out of 5 working days is 20% of your income so your days outside would be 4 times that amount. Unless you are in sales or some other line of work that is not straight pay.

Page 3 of the instructions says MA sourced income is the taxable amount.

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wndrbred22Author

Thanks AmyC! So just to make it clear, even though the company is in MA, and the MA company is paying me, I don't have to claim all my wages from said company because I work remotely 80% of the time? Just don't want to screw this up 🙂

AmyC

Employee

I added MA source income just in case, good thing! The company is in MA so all of your income is MA source income. So, prepare the nonresident MA return, the program will calculate the tax liability and then prepare your state return to get a credit for the MA tax.

You get credit for the lower state tax on the lowest taxable amount.