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And all these years I have been blaming ca for this tax method.

Who did invent it??
Lets stop bashing the ca tax department.

Charlie (ny cpa)

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Katie Jaques <katiej_1958[at]yahoo.com> wrote:

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I'm sure you're correct about that. But still, it's ~lots of
fun~ to BLAME this problem on California. So I'm sure that a
number of us will continue to do so. <g
MTW

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charlie <charliejay[at]optonline.com> (NO SPAM) wrote:

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All correct EXCEPT that California did not invent it. In
fact, California did not adopt this method until 1982. A
number of other states had it much earlier than that.

Katie in San Diego

The foregoing is intended for educational purposes only and
does not constitute legal or professional advice.

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Rak <raka12345[at]yahoo.com> wrote:

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IIt is the so called ca formula (because they started it)
will kick your nys taxable income up to a higher rate.

then the % of agi, which does not include your wife's
income, is applied to the tax. resulting in more tax due on
the your ny income now used in a lot of states

charlie

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aka12345[at]yahoo.com (Rak) wrote:

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NY will not tax your wife's NJ sourced income. NY, like
many states, uses your federal AGI as the jumping off point
to compute a New York AGI as if you were residents. After
taking deductions, you arrive at a NY base tax. You then
compute a ratio of your "true" NY source AGI to your
federally derived NY AGI to determine how much tax is due.
Effectively, only your NY source income is being taxed, but
the tax rate is based on your income as if you were NY
residents. You need to carefully read the instructions to
the NY IT-203 Nonresident return.

Alan
http://taxtopics.net

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Recently, I received a NYS tax notice for year 2000 (back
taxes+intrest) stating that I am not allowed to file married
seperately with NY state when I file joint federal return. I
work in NYC, live in NJ. My wife work and live in NJ. I
filed NYS married seperate return claiming all my NYS income
and credits accordingly. Can somebody tell me why NYS
compeling me to file married joint return? By doing so NYS
charges NY state income tax on my wife's income who doesnot
live or work in NYS. Can somebody help me? I beleive it is
an apparent illegal technique used by NYS double dipping
nonresident tax filer with one spousal income.

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