Working in NY but living in NJ 1st time. I filled through H&R Block then hired someone separately with a CPA but numbers aren’t making sense
Hello to anyone that is able to help provide some advice. I moved from NY to NJ March 2025 and had filed my tax return with H&R Block this year.
Amount owed -
NYS - $464.51 (IT - 201)
NYS - $1,208.19
NJS - $3,754.58
IRS - $190.54
The thing is my salary was at that time 77k and I got an annual bonus that was 15k. On my NJ paper work it’s stating that my total wages are 168k which is no where close of what I made.
Originally when I was going back and forth with H&R Block they said that it was the way my job reported it but I went back to the service company that did our W-2 and they said it was correct (I’ll be calling them again tomorrow as I just got all the bills in the mail). They did update everything on their end when I originally moved so they were taking out taxes for both states.
I don’t have any other additional income other than my previous job and did not have any investment accounts. I paid someone separately to look at everything but I don’t really trust what she did and her responses were very obviously AI.
So my question is if this is normal or does it really sound like something is incorrect because I don’t want to continue fighting a battle that is worthless.
I just feel like they are taking advantage and if my salary was 77k why do I owe in total over 5.6k in taxes when they were taking out a great deal of money each check.
I thank you in advance for any responses on this.
Also for more context when I was living in NY I’d get refunds of about 2k so this is very alarming.