Hi,

i am a student in ohio..

my husband is resident of texas.
we filed our federal taxes jointly.

now, i am trying to file ohio taxes but it is showing that i owe them $238 that is because of my husband income which is not the income from ohio.

how should i file so that it does not show that i owe them money

Thanks..

ebaines

Do you have income from Ohio, or are you just a student there? If you are just a student with no income of your own, then you are considered to be a non-resident of Ohio and so do not need to file taxes in Ohio. You are considered to be a TX resident who is temporarily out of state.

kns419

yes i have income as graduate assistant

kns419

yah i work as a graduate assistant in the university

ebaines

OK, so it appears yo do indeed need to file in OH. The way this works is OH taxes you on your OH-based inocme only - not your husnband's - but at a tax rate that takes into account your total household income. Thus the form requires you to report all income as a couple, and calculate tax as if it was all earned in OH. That gets you to line 10 of IT-1040. Then you subtract a percentage that represents the percent of your joint income that is not OH-based. You do this on Schedule D of IT-1040, which carries to line 13 of IT-1040. So your total tax, on line 19, should represent tax ONLY on the portion of your income that is from Ohio.