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When you start to enter Job-Related Expenses you will come to a screen that says "Is your {occupation} work a part of one of these professions or situations?" It has five choices. See the screen shot below. You must have selected one of the first four choices, all of which allow employee business expenses to be deducted. You have to select the last option, "I wasn't in any of these professions or situations." That will remove the employee business expenses from your federal tax return.

If your state allows a deduction for employee business expenses, the expenses that you enter in the federal section will flow to your state tax return, even though you exclude them from your federal tax return. If your state does not allow them, you might as well not enter the expenses at all, or delete any that you did enter. I believe there are only 8 states that allow the deduction: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Hawaii, Maryland, Minnesota, New York, and Pennsylvania.