Deductions & credits

Then you must paper file.   Be aware that the federal return will take 6-9 months to process due to the IRS backlogs.

 

Maryland requires you to be consistent.  Both federal and state need to be standard deductions or both need to be itemized. 

 

So you have determined that itemizing on both returns yields a better outcome than taking the standard deduction on both?  

 

if you overrode the standard deduction on the federal return so that MD and federal are both consistent, and Turbo Tax states that violates their 'override' rules, then sounds like a paper file is in order.