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    Feb 29, 2008, 03:02 PM
    Double taxation by states (CT, RI, GA)
    This year I believe I need to file as a part-year resident for GA and RI and as a nonresident for CT. I taught in CT (where I also rented an apt so I could stay overnight 3x/week). I spent my weekends with my boyfriend at our apt in RI. Then in June I moved to GA where although my job was finished I still collected paychecks from CT until September. I have been unemployed since.

    Today I did my taxes for RI and CT and looked through GA's. It looks like I am paying full taxes on all of my salary in CT, and I am paying full taxes in RI for 5 months on that same salary. I can't figure out my GA taxes at all since their terminology seems different from everyone else.

    Shouldn't RI, be giving me credit for already paying taxes on my salary or do I really have to pay twice? If so, could I possibly discount the time I spent in RI and consider myself a part-time resident of CT and a nonresident of RI, therefore, not filing in RI at all and saving myself lots of money?

    And finally does anyone know of a resource beyond the GA instruction booklet that explains how to fill out the state forms (including the part-time resident section)?

    Thanks
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    Feb 29, 2008, 03:17 PM
    What RI does, like most states, is have you calculate your taxes as if you lived and worked in RI, then you to subtract a credit for taxes paid to CT. Look at at line 11C of the RI-1040 and the Schedule III -- that's where you show taxes paid to CT and subtract it out . The trick here is to do your CT taxes first, then your RI taxes second.

    Same thing will happen when you do your GA taxes - you subtract out taxes paid to CT while you were a GA resident.
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    Feb 29, 2008, 03:41 PM
    Thank you ebaines. I missed part 2 of RI Schedule V (on the back page) and your suggestion helped me find it. However, since I am filing with RI-1040NR (for part year residents) there is no line 11C and Schedule III is only for full year nonresidents. Schedule V is for part-year residents.

    It almost seems silly to fill out the forms just to result in a zero owed or due at the end.

    Now I just need to learn to interpret the GA tax forms.
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    Feb 29, 2008, 03:56 PM
    Ah yes, you are correct - I cited the wrong form for a part-year resident. My bad. However, see line 13 of form RI-1040NR (Part-year resident with income from outside RI ) and schedule V - these seem to do the same thing as I described above.

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