State tax filing

I appreciate your time, reply, and explanation. The link I posted in my previous message basically validates what you wrote. You did a much better job at describing the breakdown though. Im still confused though because I did the same exact return in H&R Block and they are giving me my state tax return showing the amount as if I removed the UCE unemployment benefits from my TurboTax state return. Obviously both tax applications should be giving me identical returns. And perhaps it is H&R Block that is wrong and not TurboTax, but I still wonder if its vice-versa.

For example, my TurboTax shows I owe California $1598, while H&R Block shows that I only owe $1295. Under "Other California adjustments to federal income" in HR Block, it shows a Federal UCE subtracting my $2700 of unemployment, and no California additions or subtractions...while in TurboTax under "Other Adjustments To Income" it adds in UCE $2700 in additions, and under "Unemployment Income Exclusion" it shows $2700. To me, it looks like TurboTax is excluding my CA unemployment only once, and then canceling it out for no reason.

So what is confusing is that HR Block is simply importing my federal unemployment amount of $2700 and excluding that from my california return since California never taxes unemployment...Meanwhile TurboTax is importing my federal unemployment of $2700 and noting that it is not taxed and excluding it, and then turbotax IS (as you noted) re-adding my federal unemployment of $2700 to "zero it out"....

Why is turbotax zeroing my California unemployment when in reality my California unemployment should be decreasing my AGI by $2700 since its not taxable. I guess what Im saying is that TurboTax seems like its canceling out my unemployment completely from california AGI versus subtracting my unemployment from my AGI and lowering my taxable income, which is what H&R Block seems to be doing.

Because Im using the online turbotax product, I cant see any of these forms that youre mentioning in order to validate what is going on with my California unemployment being added twice as an exclusion and canceled out only once... 

Anyways, I guess the most pertinent question right now please, is Id like to know if you can please tell me where I can go within TurboTax Online for my California Return to specifically see that my unemployment is being excluded twice? I can clearly see where the unemployment is being re-added to "cancel out" the supposed 2nd unemployment amount that is being added somewhere, but I want to see where my unemployment has been marked as an exclusion twice, before it gets re-added and canceled out, please and thanks.

The fact that H&R Block is giving me a different amount that I owe in my CA return than what TurboTax shows is very concerning and I need to figure out who is wrong or right now, before I file. I have a friend who is a CPA check what I entered into turbotax and hr block and he believes that I entered everything identically at both ends and doesnt think I made a mistake on one app versus the other. Its frustrating with the online version of turbotax that I cant see the schedules/forms that you are referring to, whereas I could if I owned the turbotax pc software version, but Im hoping you can at least please tell me where in turbotax online that I can visually confirm that turbotax has added my CA unemployment exclusion twice in order to necessitate canceling out my unemployment again as an addition.

Thanks in advance!