As you know, we in the Community cannot see your private tax data. There is no easy-to-identify reason why this should happen, but there are so many variables involved, we can't say that this is the wrong result, either.
So two comments:
1. Don't watch the Refund Meter too closely. Things are happening in the background all the time which makes it seem like a deduction increases your tax - this is because things are being done out-of-sequence (but with good reason) by TurboTax. It's only the final result that makes a difference. How much tax you "owed" halfway through really doesn't have any meaning.
2. If you had TurboTax Live where you could share your tax data with a TurboTax credentialed tax professional, the first thing they would do is print off a copy of your federal return without the state, then a copy of the federal return with the state, and then compare the two forms lines by line until the difference was identified.
I encourage you to do this for yourself.
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