TurboTax not letting me e-file Hawaii because of form 2106 (Teacher) which shouldn't be there.

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March 2, 2022
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My wife is a teacher in California and she has educator expenses we report. I have a rental property in Hawaii which I report for that state. When I try to submit my Hawaii taxes TurboTax says that I can't because I have educator expenses, however because all those expenses are for California, I enter zero in the field for Hawaii. Regardless of the fact there are no educator expenses for my Hawaii tax return TurboTax is still creating a form 2106 (Teacher) that is preventing me from e-filing my Hawaii return.

Is this a bug? Is there a workaround? I confirmed if I don't report the educator expenses on my federal and California returns then the Hawaii form 2106 (Teacher) isn't created and I can e-file, but I don't want to give up that deduction.

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MarilynG

Alumni - Intuit

Form 2106 is not supported for Efile in Hawaii, but can be printed and mailed. Click this link for a list of State Form Availability.

You could Efile your Federal and California, and indicate you want to print your Hawaii return for mailing.

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Gem-in-eyeAuthor

Level 2

The problem is that the Form 2106 shouldn't be created since I don't have any educator expenses for Hawaii.

AmyC

Alumni - Intuit

Follow these steps:

Open or continue your return in TurboTax.
Locate Tax Tools
Select Tools
See the pop-up window Tool Center
Choose Delete a form
Select Delete next to the HI form 2106 worksheet in the list.

You may need to log out and clear cache and cookies. Log back in. If it is still there, go back through your HI return. Continue through to the deductions section and make sure to mark zero in those expenses. You may need to delete the form again.

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