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Old 03-17-2010, 10:14 AM
 
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walk me quickly through how I file taxes? I am doing my son's taxes for him (he's Drexel student who worked a part time job). I did his federal several weeks ago but now need to complete the rest- state and ? Do I have to file something for the city taxes? Can someone put this in a nutshell for me what has to be done?

Thanks so much!
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Old 03-17-2010, 08:14 PM
 
Location: Yardley PA
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If he works in Philly he's being charged a city wage tax - that tax offsets his NJ state tax. The best thing to do is to use turbotax or taxact and it will prompt you to ask you "did you work in a state other than the one you live in?" if you answer yes to that question, it will ask how much taxes went to philly, and deduct that from his NJ state taxes so that it all evens out. Otherwise he is going to end up having to owe NJ money.
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Old 03-17-2010, 09:14 PM
 
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If he works in Philly he's being charged a city wage tax - that tax offsets his NJ state tax. The best thing to do is to use turbotax or taxact and it will prompt you to ask you "did you work in a state other than the one you live in?" if you answer yes to that question, it will ask how much taxes went to philly, and deduct that from his NJ state taxes so that it all evens out. Otherwise he is going to end up having to owe NJ money.
Thanks so much!

I was hoping to just do the taxes with pen and paper. You know, the old fashioned way. Since he only worked a part time job and has no dependents or anything, it shouldn't be complicated.

So, if I am understanding correctly, I need to use a schedule A with the NJ 1040 and basically the city wage tax will kinda sorta replace the NJ state taxes that were not withheld?
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Old 03-18-2010, 08:03 AM
 
Location: Yardley PA
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Hm. I am not a tax professional by any means, so please google this to be sure - but what you're saying makes sense. If turbo tax basically just takes the city wage tax and applies that to NJ state tax, I would assume you could do the same.
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Old 03-19-2010, 10:55 AM
 
Location: South Philly
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I used to live in NJ and work in Philly - you just file your NJ taxes. The paper form asks you if you paid taxes to another jurisdiction - you subtract what you paid to Philly and PA from what you owe NJ.

My employer actually didn't even take PA taxes out of my check - just the NJ taxes. There's some reciprocity agreement between the two states.
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