You should go through your North Carolina and South Carolina returns again. When you are filing a non-resident return and a resident return, you should complete the non-resident (South Carolina) return first. Then the accurate credit for taxes paid to another state can be calculated on your resident (North Carolina) return.
You mentioned that you already paid taxes to both states. If you are referring to having state taxes withheld from your paycheck, then entering your W-2 will take care of reporting that information to your state returns.
If you paid estimated taxes to one or both states, then that information should be entered in your Federal return. Those estimates may be counted as part of your Schedule A Itemized Deductions, so that is why they are entered in the Federal return. Use the following steps:
Use the following steps to enter the state estimated payments:
- On the top row of the TurboTax online screen, click on Search (or for CD/downloaded TurboTax locate the search box in the upper right corner)
- This opens a box where you can type in “estimated tax payments” and click the magnifying glass (or for CD/downloaded TurboTax, click Find)
- The search results will give you an option to “Jump to estimated tax payments”
- Click on the blue “Jump to estimated tax payments” link
- Click Start beside State Estimated Taxes for 2021 to enter your information
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