I live in NH and work in MA 2 days a week, work remotely from NH 3 days a week.

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April 15, 2024
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I live in NH and physically work in MA 2 days a week, work remotely from NH 3 days a week. It actually works out that I am in MA less than that with vacations, bad weather preventing travel etc. but I'm doing calculations under that assumptions. I'd rather over pay MA than under pay. Rather straightforward. However, I cannot seShould I get back 60% of what MA withheld since that was calcuated as being in MA all days?

2024NHworkingMAAuthor

Edit to my question. I cannot see on turbotax where to break this down. If I say that I made some money OUTSIDE of MA they seem to interpret this as making MORE income than on my W2 and my tax burden increases.

TomD8

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In the Personal Info section of TT be sure you enter NH as your State of Residence and indicate that you had other state income from MA.

MA taxes non-residents only on income from work actually performed within MA. In your case that is 2 days out of 5, or 40%. Thus you would allocate 40% of your work income to MA when you do your MA non-resident tax return. See the instructions for Line 13 on page 14 of the MA tax instruction booklet:

https://www.mass.gov/doc/2023-form-1-nrpy-instructions/download

The amount of your refund from MA will be determined by your actual tax amount due vs your MA taxes withheld.

**Answers are correct to the best of my ability but do not constitute tax or legal advice.