No. You cannot deduct any of the travel and housing costs. The Tax Cuts and and Jobs Act suspended the previous deduction for job-related expenses or other miscellaneous itemized deductions that exceeded 2 percent of your adjusted gross income is suspended. This includes unreimbursed employee expenses such as uniforms, union dues and the deduction for business-related meals, entertainment and travel... If your living and other expenses are less than, or approximately the same as your taxable per diem, you may want to speak with your employer about switching to an expense reimbursement arrangement. You would be reimbursed actual expenses, but it would not be taxable.
TurboTax should have asked you if you earned income in other states during the initial interview. If it didn't or you skipped over it, that's OK. When you get to the State section, indicate that you need to add another state. TurboTax will guide you through reporting for both states. Your home state of Louisiana will tax 100% of our income regardless of where it was earned. Pennsylvania will also tax your income from that state. To keep from being double taxed, Louisiana will give you a credit for tax paid to another state. You should enter your non-resident (Pennsylvania) state return first, and then complete your Louisiana return.
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