Soooo long story short, I joined the military out of my home state of New York in 2016 and got out in 2025- didn't live there at all but visited family occasionally. During my early years, I didn't know shit about taxes and assumed I just fill out everything in turbo tax and it should all be good….little did I know turbo tax was filing the IT-201 resident return and not the IT-203 non resident return for me. 9 years and autofilled turbo tax returns later, I'm sitting here expecting my surprisingly high NY state return to hit my account only to find it not hit at all. I (for the first time) made a NYS tax login and was able to see everything going on- I've actually OWED New York taxes from last year somehow, and they took my whole return for 2025 and applied it to the balance. Dumb on me for not doing this sooner yes but in my defense, I was active duty stationed in Virginia and then Illinois and wasn't nor did I have time to think about my New York State taxes. As it turns out, my 2025 NY return was the first one that turbo tax used the correct non resident IT-203 which explained my way larger than normal NY return…. which ultimately didn't matter because they applied it to unpaid taxes while I was still active duty (lol). Basically, wtf do I do now?! Please and thank you!
TLDR; did taxes wrong for 9 years and I think New York owes me?
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