On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:10:41 EDT, Tom Healy CPA <tom[at]tomhealycpa.comwrote:

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Thanks. I trust you know whereof you speak. All the same, it seems a
little unreasonable to me - the Iowa bracket is set by our total income,
but the NY credit is set by the Iowa-source income. Net is, we only get
credit for less than half the Iowa tax. Oh well.

If you have the inclination to explain, I'm puzzled by the way NY
computes the out-of-state 'AGI-equivalent' (line 20 of it-112) - if the
'gross income' (line 16) is Iowa-source only, what is the logic of then
subtracting our entire federal adjustment from this, and calling it AGI?
On the IA-1040, the adjustment is applied against our TOTAL income, not
just the IA-source portion.

So, I think NY is wrong to start with, and then not even
self-consistent. Again, oh well.

Anyway, thanks for the reply.
George

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On Mar 22, 4:24*pm, George <gbecc...[at]verizon.net> wrote:
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based on that state's income. I think that is what Iowa is doing. Make
sure you are doing their computation correctly. Also I believe Iowa is
one of the states that has a reciprocal tax arrangement with
neighboring states, and you may have found yourself in that part of
their return (which shouldn't apply to you). Your IT-112 credit is
based on the Iowa income (net rental income from Schedule E) as a
percentage of NY adjusted gross income.

Tom Healy, CPA, CSA
Boulder, CO

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We are NY residents. My wife recently came into some rental property in
Iowa. The rental income is subject to IA tax. NY provides a credit for
this tax, via form it-112. Roughly, this appears to ...
- total your 'other-state' income,
- compute that as a fraction of your total (it-201) taxable income,
- multiply your NY tax by that fraction
- ... which number then caps the amount of credit you can take
for the other-state tax.

So, if your other-state taxable income is 1/2 of your total it-201
taxable income, the max credit is 1/2 of the NYS tax.

Which is clear enough. My question is, what to count as 'other-state'
income? Per the it-112 instructions, ...
" Enter in column B of Form IT-112-R the gross income from column A [NY
income] that was taxed by the other taxing authority ..."

Which sort of sounds like, column B would be just the
'other-state'-source income. (In our case, the IA rent.)

But, for non-residents, Iowa requires that you file a regular ia-1040
that includes ALL your income, regardless of state. They compute the IA
tax on this, but then apply a 'non-resident credit' (per ia-126). That
seems like ALL our income is subject to IA tax, and the NY it-112
'other-state' income (column B) items would include ALL our income, not
just that from IA sources.

So: should our it-112 'other-state' income (column B) use just our
IA-source income, or should it come from our IA return, which include
non-IA-source income?

Thank you,
George

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