No, you do not need to enter your husband's expenses for maintaining your rental property. The PA unreimbursed business expenses is only for employees who receive a W-2. Since you already deducted your husband's expenses on your rental income, you do not also include it as unreimbursed business expenses. The rental income is entered in a different area on the Pennsylvania return and the total income does carry through from the federal return.
Your teacher expenses ARE unreimbursed business expenses and is one of the few that you are also allowed a deduction on your federal return, up to $250. This information is in TurboTax already, but you will have to tell the system to include it for PA. It's also important that since the federal deduction is capped at $250, you can enter more than that for PA if you spent more on school supplies that you were not reimbursed for by your school. To do that:
- In your PA return, press Continue on Unreimbursed job expenses
- Select Edit by your job duties and your employer on the next screen
- Leave the box that says Check this box if you do not want to include employee job expenses on this return unchecked
- Confirm your employer information
- Under Federal employee business expenses, the educator expenses you took on your federal return should already be there. If you need to modify the amount, you can.
- If you had other expenses, like union dues, you may enter those as well. Please note that work clothes are only considered deductible if it is something that you could not wear outside of work, like a uniform or special equipment.
