Maine Income Tax

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Q. I have some friends who are married, live in southern New Hampshire and work in Maine. Actually the wife works in Maine and the husband in Massachusetts. Some how the state of Maine taxes their combined income. I had always believed that filing separately on their federal income tax was the way around this, but Angie tells me it's not true. Does anyone out there now out there know how the state of Maine justifies this apparent ripoff and short of not working there, how to keep them only taxing the income earned in Maine?

A. -As I understand it, the state of Maine only taxes people on income earned in Maine; *but* it adds in their spouses' income when determining the bracket in which the income is taxed. This is, of course, taxation by Maine of income of non-Maine resid

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