I am using the ONLINE version and the question highlighted below does not appear during the federal return interview. I did enter into TT that I lived in two states. The TT questions for excluding income terminates after I click continue at the 4th bullet below (Enter US Government Interest )
- Enter your Form 1099-DIV exactly as the boxes appear in the 1099-DIV section including exempt-interest dividends.
- Click Continue
- At the screen "Tell us if any of these uncommon situations apply to you", check the box next to "A portion of these dividends is U.S. Government interest". Click Continue.
- The next screen states "Enter U.S. Government Interest". Enter the amount in the box provided. Click Continue.
- The next screen asks which state(s) your exempt-interest dividends are from. You can enter the amount for each state here. Click Done.
******* I AM NOT PROMPTED FOR THE LAST BULLET *******
There is no prompt in the MA state return to change the exclusion amount carried from the federal return, and the Online TT federal program DOES NOT have the prompt asking "which state(s) your exept-interest dividends are from". Please dont say to use the Desktop version I don't want to switch I just want to use TT to do my taxes properly. There must be a way to do this in the Online version. I think the solution is not to enter any exclusion amount in the federal return and exclude/allocate in both MA and NC state returns. Otherwise TT is forcing 100% of the excluded amount entered in the federal return into both MA and NC with no way to change it.
