Does Turbotax for ty2018 allow North Carolina itemized deductions when using standard deductions for the Federal?

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June 6, 2019
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North Carolina for tax year 2018 is allowing itemized deductions even when the federal is filed standard. Last year NC did not allow this. I wondered if Turbotax Deluxe is allowing this and allowing it to be efiled. This is extra important because NC requires QCDs to be added back to income, and allows them to be added to charitable deductions.

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Best answer by SteamTrain

YES...IT does and I've already tried it..(with a couple "But"s)

Yes..NC does...I've prepared a couple test tax returns that are Std Ded Fed and it itemizes on NC automatically (if larger than NC StdDed )
......BUT#1....
You need to enter all your other deductions in the Federal Deductions&Credits section first.....all the usual deductions transfer from there.
...BUT#2.......and IF you did a QCD again this year, the NC tax return doesn't quite pick that up properly as an itemized NC deduction until you run thru the entire NC tax return Q&A.....and then you still have to go thru the NC error check, where a page pops up and asks again for the exact amount of the QCD. At which point it gets applied to NC itemized deductions

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YES...IT does and I've already tried it..(with a couple "But"s)

Yes..NC does...I've prepared a couple test tax returns that are Std Ded Fed and it itemizes on NC automatically (if larger than NC StdDed )
......BUT#1....
You need to enter all your other deductions in the Federal Deductions&Credits section first.....all the usual deductions transfer from there.
...BUT#2.......and IF you did a QCD again this year, the NC tax return doesn't quite pick that up properly as an itemized NC deduction until you run thru the entire NC tax return Q&A.....and then you still have to go thru the NC error check, where a page pops up and asks again for the exact amount of the QCD. At which point it gets applied to NC itemized deductions

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