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March 18, 2023
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My local income on my w2 is 150% more than my total income

  • March 18, 2023
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A year and a half ago my employer started a flex schedule program. I work at home 3 days per week, and at the office in another city two days per week. I fill out my time card to reflect which city I worked in for each day, and I pay taxes to each city according to the hours I worked in that respective location. However, when I got my w2 for 2022, it reported my local income as if I worked part time at the office and full time at home, so that my total local income was 150% of my actual income, and now I am being forced to pay 150% local taxes. I don't think my w2 is being correctly completed by my employer. If I worked part at the office in one city, and part time at home in another city, and I was taxed for the two cities accordingly, then why is my income not divided the same way? My w2 reports the amount of my income at the office as half of my income, but the amount of my income at home is equal to ALL of my income, so that it looks like I made almost twice as much as I acutally did, and now I am being forced to pay taxes in my home city on more income than I earned there. Does that make sense?

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March 18, 2023

Can you clarify which city?

March 19, 2023

My office is in Akron, Ohio, and my work at home is in North Canton, Ohio. These are normally locations that allow reciprocal tax credit, but when I tried to file my city taxes, the way the w2 is reporting them, it made it looks like my income was 150% more than it actually is, and therefore raised my taxes more than 150% over what they are for my actual income.