<prompt> Human: When I first started my career mid 2015, I moved from DC to NY as an intern to work for the company at which I would eventually be employed full-time. Three months later late 2015, still as an intern, my company asked me to move back to DC where I lived for a little more than a year and was eventually hired as a full time employee. At the very beginning of 2017, I was again asked to move, back to NY, still with this company. All this time, I realized when filing my 2017 taxes, I was being charged a state tax for both DC and NY. I know I should have realized it sooner, but it was my first job, my checks were deposited directly, and with each of those moves came titlesalary changes, so my paychecks changed quite a bit in that period too. How should I go about getting that money back? Its a couple thousand dollars. Is it the IRS responsibility to pay it back for being the ones who have it, or is it on my job for being the ones who released the money in the first place? I tried to get it solved last tax season, but the person from whom I sought help wasnt very helpful understandably so. Any ideas on how I can get this money back?Assistant: This is normal. You pay state taxes for the money you earned while actually in the state.If you worked one month each in 12 different states youd have to pay taxes to, and file returns to, all 12 states. The IRS has nothing to do with state taxes. The IRS is federal.Also, Washington DC isnt a state. Human: Hi Paco, I was charged for both, even when I lived in DC for the full fiscal year. Does that mean I need to go through NY state to recoup that money?  <response>: If you were taxed by both on the same money, yes youll have to go through the tax authority of the state you shouldnt have been paying. 