Thanks Bill - The reason I am trying to remove the 8889 is that I can see the difference between my Fed W2 income and my state income is $1292, the exact amount of my HSA contribution. So by filling out the 8889 which, after research, says, don't use this form if you have a cafeteria plan (didn't know that's what I had, but evidently that's what they call in when it is suppressed from your federal taxable wages), I inadvertently have then deducted the HSA contribution twice for the Feds: once pre-W2, then on 8889. I am using online version. Seeing my state taxes go up when I omitted the 8889 is the first time I realized I should have been deducting HSA from my state taxes all along.
