On my federal return, I am taking the standard deduction with a qualified disaster loss on top of the standard deduction for losses in a federally declared disaster. When trying to do my Louisiana state return, Turbo tax will not allow me to adjust my adjusted gross income for the "itemized deduction" on top of my standard deduction. The federal return says I used the standard deduction, which I did but there is no way to adjust for the disaster loss on the state return. It appears, the software is not allowing anything to be entered on Form IT-540 lines 8A and 8B because standard deduction is checked off from the federal return, but the standard deduction amount on the federal return is not the standard deduction amount. It seems like the state return should be flagging an error because of this, but it is not and does not allow the amount to be manually changed.
