The TurboTax software is calculating the kicker correctly. I went back into the kicker worksheet and put in zero for my 2018 state tax and my 2019 state tax refund was exactly the amount of my kicker subtracted form the posted refund. In short looks like software is already calculating the kicker into the refund when your state tax from 2018 is automatically loaded into your 2019 taxes. In most situations in Turbo Tax the refund goes up and down as you enter information but looks like the kicker is already calculated into the estimated refund before you go through the kicker section. I would assume that if you did not have the 2018 tax info auto imported into the 2019 return and had to enter the 2018 state tax by keyboard the kicker section would adjust the estimated refund. Hope that make sense. To check go back to the kicker section and put zero in for your 2018 state tax. It should reduce your state refund by the amount of your kicker. Put your 2018 state tax back in and your kicker will then be reflected in the new estimated state tax refund,
