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Retirement tax questions

After entering the information from your 1099-R for this pension, TurboTax should ask Where is your distribution from? Did you select a Qualified government retirement distribution?

 

If the pension is exempt from Massachusetts state income tax, this is where it should be indicated with no adjustment needed in the state section of your return. If this is how you entered it and it is still giving this error, you may want to try deleting the 1099-R and re-entering it.