State Taxes

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November 26, 2018
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I didn't file in 2016. When I took my current job in Minnesota I moved here with no set address. My company couldn't issue me a check without an address so I used my mother's in Wisconsin. Therefore my income was reported to Wisconsin. Wisconsin is now after me for taxes even though I was a resident of Minnesota the entire time and MN taxes were withheld. To top it all off my company was sold and the old company dissolved and cannot issue me new W2. What should I do?

Carl11_2

Employee

Basically, you will file a MN non-resident return and then a WI resident return. You *MUST* complete the non-resident return FIRST. Then when you do the resident return you'll indicate that *NONE* of the money earned in MN, was earned while working in WI. As to weather or not you will have a tax liability to WI, that will depend on any reciprocal tax agreement that may or may not exist between those two states.

K

KpkAuthor

Employee

Thank you. So in the end who gets paid? Do I pay what I owe to MN (which will be substantially lower than it would to WI) when I file the non resident return? Then include a copy with the WI?

Carl11_2

Employee

I can't answer that one, because I don't know what type of tax agreement, if one even exists, between the two states. But I would expect you would not pay your home state any taxes, since you didn't have a job there, earn income there, and was not employed by any business registered in that state. But then again, my assumption could be wrong without knowing about any tax agreements.