Sorry, no, just entering "Multiple States" and hitting Continue worked with TurboTax for prior tax years, but for the current version of 2025 TurboTax at this posting, that definitely does not work--I tried it. If your 1099 reports exempt dividend income, you MUST enter one actual state and some amount of tax-exempt dividends for that state before you are allowed to choose Multiple States for the balance, and whatever you enter has to add up correctly to the total. (Normally you would do this for the state(s) in which you were filing state income tax returns.) If you don't split it out this way in 2025 TurboTax, you are not allowed to proceed and get the dividends area of your return marked as completed. It's a real time-wasting nuisance this year, because at least in my case, and I expect many others, it will make no difference in state income tax due.
