You cannot create a married filing separate return in TurboTax for one person if you are filing a joint federal return.
You can create a separate online account for your spouse and prepare a married filing separate return. However you would have to pay for a second federal and state return—and you can't e-file because this return won't match your joint federal.
The best way is to download your tax file and create a mock return with just your spouse's income. You can use the numbers from this return to add the IL tax paid as a credit to your joint California return. IL will have to be mailed.
How do I prepare a joint federal return and separate state returns?
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