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kmax91 · Feb 12, 2009, 09:25 AM

I live and work in NJ. My employer is based in GA and, on my W2, only withheld federal and GA state taxes.

I'm assuming I need to file a nonresident state return in GA as well as a resident return in NJ, and that on the NJ form I'll complete the section for taxes paid to another jurisdiction. True? Not true? Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

walt17 · Feb 12, 2009, 09:36 AM

If you do not live or work in GA, you should not have to pay GA income tax. This could have been a clerical error. Contact your payroll department and ask them for an explanation.

kmax91 · Feb 12, 2009, 09:43 AM

Thanks for your reply. No, it's not clerical. The company is very small, and just expanded into NJ with my employment this year. They're getting an NJ tax ID number but don't have one yet. So, this is what they've done.

walt17 · Feb 12, 2009, 10:07 AM

That may be why they deducted GA taxes. The link below contains contact info for GA taxpayer assistance. Alternatively, you may need a tax professional. If you lived and worked in NJ, you are probably liable for NJ taxes.

Georgia Department Of Revenue

kmax91 · Feb 12, 2009, 10:17 AM

Thanks, again. Yeah, I know I have to pay NJ taxes. In the past, I've worked in NYC and had NY/NYC/NJ taxes taken out, and filed in both states. I just wanted to make sure that in this case, with nothing coming out of NJ and state coming out of GA, in which I've never worked a day, that the process is the same.

ebaines · Feb 12, 2009, 10:28 AM

kmax91 - yes, you will have to file a GA tax return, and you will find that yourtax bill for 2008 is precisely $0, since you neither worked nor lived in GA. So GA will refund all the taxes that your employer withheld in 2008. Then you file your NJ tax return, reporting all your income, and you will have to pony up a significant amount of money to pay them for the full year's worth of taxes on your salary. Unfortuntely you may find that the refund from GA doesn't arrive until after your payment is due to NJ, so you will have to come up with the cash yourself. To make it worse - you may also find that NJ hits you up for interest payments because you did not pay estimated taxes during the year.

Obviously it's a good thing that your employer is finally getting around to getting an NJ tax ID number. Until they start withholding NJ taxes I suggest that you review the requirements that NJ has for making estimated tax payments so as to avoid interest charges on your 2009 taxes.