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..

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.

Yes I have income as graduate assistant

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Originally Posted by 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.

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Yah I work as a graduate assistant in the university

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.