If you paid state taxes last year and need to claim them on your 2016 tax return follow these steps:
• Open up your tax return in Turbotax
• Click pick up where I left off
• Select Federal Taxes at the top of your screen
• Select Deductions and Credits
• Scroll down the page to the section titled Estimates and Other Taxes Paid and click Show More
• Select Start/Revisit to the right of the line Estimated Taxes or Other Income Taxes depending on what type of state tax you paid
• Select the appropriate type of state tax that you paid and click Start to the right of the line
• Enter your state tax payment amount.
