The teacher expense is entered in the federal forms and pulled into CA and HI. It's in each state that I designate how much of the deduction applies to each state. One option I was toying with was to submit my federal and CA returns, then go back and edit the federal by removing the teacher expense. I'm not sure how TurboTax will behave if I try that. Your suggestion to file the HI taxes with the teacher expenses removed from the federal forms first would allow me to e-file my HI taxes, but would TurboTax allow me to go back and modify the federal taxes after I've already started filing?
I think these might be the best options, but has anyone ever tried doing that? I'd hate to find out once I e-file something I can't to back and make changes.
