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TTax MA appears to be double-counting income earned in another state, forcing me to tell Step-by-Step to count only income earned in MA to get it to be accurate.

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June 3, 2019
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In the MA program, TTax appears to be double-counting income earned in another state. I was forced to tell Step-by-Step to count only income earned in MA to get it to accurately include ALL W-2 income from ALL states. But HELP! Now TTax is telling me that I cannot e-file because I have included only income earned in MA. This is not true. Is there an error in the MA program? How can I fix this?

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Zbucklyo

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If you are filing a MA resident return, MA taxes you on all your income, but gives you a credit for taxes paid vto other states

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brentwood36Author

Understood. The way it should be. But that's not my question, nor does it explain why TTax double-counts non-MA source income simply because the out-of-state employer (correctly) entered income # twice--once for the second state. (once for MA, state of residency). Doesn't mean they paid twice! (By way of example: They also entered the same # for Federal income and also repeated it in SS Wages box. Doesn't mean the wages got paid multiple times!) Failure to fix this means I cannot e-file; TTax states that it also means they aren't reporting non-MA source income, which is false and problematical. (They just aren't reporting it twice.) Anyone else find this problem? I saw someone from RI who mentioned double-count of MA source income.