While filling in the 1099-DIV information in the Federal section of my tax return, if there is an amount in Box 11 (Exempt Interest Dividends), I enter it. Yet in the State section (mine is CT), I am again asked to enter Federally Tax Exempt Interest & Dividends into a blank box. Should I be entering this same amount of Exempt Interest Dividends that I already entered in the Federal section? I am concerned I will now be taxed on double the amount that I actually earned. Doesn't the Federal information automatically get transferred to the State section?
