Thank you. 1 and 2 are solved.
For question 3, I went back into the Federal return and added all of the state by state municipal interest income, including interest income from my state (from 1099 INT). What this did was add the tax-exempt income back to my state return as MD taxes out of state municipal bond interest. I am hoping I did it wrong as that is a bigger tax bill for me but it make sense. As example, if I had $10,000 in Tax-Exempt municipal bond interest and $1,000 was from Maryland, the Federal return would exempt $10,000, but Maryland would only exempt $1,000, adding $9,000 back to interest income and then taxing it.
The uncommon situations checkbox only had an option to exempt income that was taxed at the federal level, which i not the case with muni bonds as they are tax exempt.
Does this seem right to you?
