I made the bulk of my income in Minnesota and only 1600 in Iowa. Do I have to file an Iowa state return?

Question

I am obviously filing a federal and Minnesota return.

Answer 1

It sounds like you are a Minnesota resident. If not, you'll need to clarify.

For working in Iowa, you'll need to file an Iowa non-resident return and pay the applicable tax. MN doesn't offer reciprocity, so you have to file and pay IA's taxes.

All earnings from your federal return will come through to your MN and be taxed. You will then be able to tax a credit for taxes paid to another state (IA) on your MN return. In effect, it is like only paying MN tax, but your checks go two different places.

Best of luck.

Answer 2

If you had state taxes withheld from your wages in Iowa you may be able to file and get some back. But if you hire someone to do your tax return it may cost more to have them prepare the return for Iowa than you'd receive as a refund.
Whatever state you lived in more than half of the year would be your resident state and the other would be your non-resident state. Either way, you'd include the Iowa income on the state you live in. But to answer you question, no probably not.
Usually if you had to pay the non-resident state any tax at all you can claim that as a credit in your home state. You'd fill out a non-resident state return first to see if you need to pay or get a refund then use that information to complete your home state tax return. (but may be to your benefit to do so)