I was a CT resident for first half of 2024 and a Maine resident for second half of 2024. While in CT, working in CT, I did a conversion for a work 403b to a roth 403b in the amount of X. I also contributed to a roth IRA by mistake, had to transfer it to a regular IRA, then backdoor it into the roth, with it growing by about Y during the conversions. X+y=Z, an amount I know I have to pay tax on federally and at the state level. Since all this happened during my time in CT, I put it as being 100% in the CT part year resident time and 0% in the ME part year resident time.
For the Maine state taxes though as a part-year resident, they say the following: you must file a Maine return based on their total federal adjusted gross income. Your tax liability is first calculated as if you were a resident of Maine for the entire year. You are then allowed to calculate a nonresident credit on Maine Schedule NR that will reduce your Maine tax by the portion of the tax that is related to the income you earned outside the state while a nonresident or safe harbor resident of Maine.
There is a part of the Maine tax form where you can list "pension income deduction" on freetaxusa. It says "Enter your total eligible military pension income included in your pension distributions above.". Z is the amount I can enter here as eligible or not eligible. If I list Z in this section, it gets subtracted from my taxable Maine income, but I'm not sure if I should be saying this amount is eligible or not.
What should I do for this part of the Maine tax form?
