Thank you for the reply. That would be an interesting interpretation by Idaho given the way the Idaho code is written (no reference to the federal credit) but it’s possible. I spoke to someone at TurboTax the other day and they basically told me the same, TurboTax is written to have no Idaho deduction if there is no federal deduction. The alternative is to file federal using TurboTax and file Idaho manually (not using TurboTax software since the numbers would be wrong) and include the 2441 that gets generated with the federal return even though the deduction in that form is $0.
