Why isn't Turbo Tax State (HI) updating the fact that I checked the box for my government pension is qualified and don't pay state tax on it?

dennis-vallefuoco — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 20:32:10 GMT

I had to go back into the Federal Income section to change the selection to "qualified pension". It should have updated my state return but it didn't.

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JamesG1 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 03:51:42 GMT

If returning to the Federal 1040 income tax return did not change the selection to a 'qualified pension', consider removing the pension and re-entering.

In TurboTax, in the Hawaii state income tax return, at the screen Pension Deduction Summary, the Hawaii pension deduction was calculated. The deduction is reported on the Hawaii form N-11 line 13.

Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS), states that certain kinds of pensions, whether paid by public or private employers, are not subject to the Hawaii income tax.

Hawaii allows a subtraction for qualifying pension distributions from:

Pension or annuity distributions from a public retirement system (such as Federal civil service annuity, military pension, state or county retirement system, and
Distributions from a private employer pension plan received upon retirement if the employee did not contribute to the pension plan.

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Why isn't Turbo Tax State (HI) updating the fact that I checked the box for my government pension is qualified and don't pay state tax on it?

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