@kenziebaker
It turns out that for many posters who think that the kicker is not being added to their return, that it actually was - but at the start of the state interview, not when they answered the kicker questions in the middle of the Oregon interview.
TurboTax does this because if you used TurboTax in 2018, TurboTax already knows the information need to calculate the 2019 kicker. So it does it at the start of the state interview.
What was confusing was that when the taxpayers entered the kicker information in the middle of the Oregon interview, it didn't change the refund, so they reasonably concluded that the kicker was not being added to their Oregon return.
You can prove this to yourself by writing down your Oregon refund, then going in to TurboTax and setting the 2018 state tax to zero. Your Oregon refund should drop by the amount of the kicker (because you just set the amount of the kicker to zero).
If this is what happens, then you now know that the kicker was already in your return.
AND BE SURE to go back into your return and change the 2018 state tax back to what it should be!
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