I am also in a case where, although taking the standard federal deduction raises my federal taxes slightly, that amount is more than offset by the itemized benefit for the state tax which requires itemizing federal.
I am experiencing the exact same problem that is being described by ChrisG2021.
Turbo Tax program keeps adding the $600 on the 1040 SR wks line 12b when it should not.
This also shows a lack of TurboTax actually doing the full impact of its itemized deduction calculation. It appears that TT only looks at federal to state that one should take standard. If it looked at the combined federal plus state tax impact, it should see that, oh my goodness, there is a benefit to itemizing in some situations where the state benefit outweighs the federal increase. This is certainly disappointing.
