Moved from NYC to NJ tax credit help!
Hello, I moved from NYC to NJ on 11/15/2025 but still have the same job in NYC, and I am stuck on the NJ return section "taxes paid to another state". I entered my total wages on my paystubs paid between 11/15/25 to 12/31/25 on the taxed by both NJ/NY box.
Are the following 2 questions referring to the total tax amounts from the NY state summary? Or do I need to somehow prorate each amount, how can the calculations be found if so?
Thanks!
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Yeah, that section trips a lot of people up. You generally use the NY tax actually paid on the income you’re reporting to NJ, not the full-year NY totals. Most software will do the proration automatically once you enter the dates and wages correctly, so you shouldn’t have to manually split the tax unless the program asks you to. If it still looks off, double-check the NY nonresident/part-year return details.
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It did not automatically split the taxes, how would I go about manually calculating?
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You can check to see how much income was reported to NJ after you have moved there on 11/15/2025, and then how much taxes you owe to NJ on that income. Then, you would have to figure out how much NY tax you on that income to get a credit for NY tax paid on your NJ state tax return.
To do this, I would use a NY table to figure out how much NY taxes is on that income, and then compare it to the NJ tax table. Since these two states tax progressively, the lower income is in a lower tax bracket. You cannot just use the average tax rate or what you see on the NY state tax return since there is more income than just this NJ-sourced income.
Or, you can use a dummy FreeTaxUSA account to see how much NY would have tax on on the NJ income by only entering the NJ income into the NY state tax return.
You can view the tax tables here:
NY:
NJ:
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