Tax Night

[kevin_standlee]

The last piece of paperwork I needed to do our 2014 income taxes arrived in today's mail, so I spent the evening dealing with TurboTax. To my annoyance, while I'm due a Federal refund, I owe non-resident income tax to California. Also, I find that for allocation-of-income purposes, I have to count every day I'm in California regardless of whether I earned income on that day if I have any California earned income. This doesn't seem particularly fair to me. I can understand taxing me on the days I'm working there, but why should I owe income tax to a state in which I don't live for days that I'm present in the state and not earning anything there, either?

I'm thinking I need to contact my employer and adjust down the percentage that they have me in California (it was 50% last year and will be 33% this year) but also have them over-withhold California income tax, lest I end up owing money again next year.

Comments

[rono-60103.livejournal.com]

This only sounds a bit more complicated than my taxes for 1998. For about two weeks in January, I was living in California, but was both being paid in California by Sony and in Illinois by Motorola as a result of Motorola deciding to make me take my accumulated vacation rather than paying me for it. Since much of my relocation occurred over the Christmas and New Years holidays, my vacation didn't run out until January.

To add to the fun: by the time I filed my 1998 taxes, I was back living in Illinois and working for Motorola.

[jcbemis.livejournal.com]

I'm still missing 2 K-1s. Hates it, we does.