<p>Hi annoyingdad! I thought we didn’t have to file in NY because the threshold for filing NY taxes appeared to be $7700 but as I went to do the forms, I found that it was $3000 for a dependent. </p>
<p>This is SO confusing, one part says son’s income has to match his Fed return and then it says ONLY report NY Source income-any ideas? $1700 was outside scholarships not from his school so that shouldn’t be counted but there is no way in the form to adjust that amount out. </p>
<p>"Your Federal (IRS) Adjusted Gross Income is the starting point in computing your New York State income tax. The amount you include as income on your federal income tax return is transferred to your NYS income tax return.</p>
<p>New York State-source income for nonresidents is your Federal (IRS) Income that you earned in New York State.
If any part or your New York scholarship or New York fellowship was included as INCOME on your federal income tax return, then enter it on the line for OTHER INCOME on your NYS income tax return." </p>
<p>Thank goodness you taught me how to do the AOC! We went back and took the full amount that we could and hopefully it will offset all these taxes.</p>
<p>I hope someone who has a CA kid going to school in NY with taxable scholarship money would jump in here but maybe there aren’t that many-lol! Any help would be great or ideas of where to go to look for more info. Thanks.</p>