State tax filing

" If you enter the data that you have on the form, TurboTax will figure out what should be done with it, and whether or not your state actually needs to know about it."

 

Here's the question many are asking, when we get to the CA tax return and it asks about "income that CA handles differently" I've seen posts from "experts" saying if Box 16 is less than box 1 (and blank seems to be a zero, so that indicates less???) then enter the difference as a subtraction! That equals the entire amount in Box 1. 

Doesn't seem that TT is figuring out what should be done on the state return, so what DO we enter here? 

Thanks