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All About Your State Income Taxes & Maximizing Deductions!

State tax laws may vary! That’s the biggest takeaway from this post. While many states conform to the IRS tax guidelines, at least to a certain extent, nearly all of them require some adjustments to maximize your state deductions. And, some states se... read more

Multi-State: Taxing Moves & Other State Tax Dues!

Do you even have to file taxes in more than one state? Do you know if you’re a resident, nonresident, or part-year resident? What if you’re in a state temporarily, such as a military move? So many questions - and TurboTax has the answers! Let’s start... read more

Software won't let me edit Payer State ID number on KW-1 Form to add 000 to make 9 digits. Please help as it also won't let me file electronically with only 6 digits (which were iimported) on the form

Software won't let me edit payers state ID number in KY from 6 digits to the required 9. Was supposed to add three zeros but number is frozen in red. I tried deleting the form and manually inputting but got same error on KW-2 version of KY income sta... read more

PA Income Tax of Gains from Primary Residence

My husband and I will soon be selling our primary residence. We've lived in our home for 38 years and have never used any portion of it for business. It will probably sell for more than the $500,000 married filing jointly exclusion, even after cost b... read more

How do I amend my PA state return due to a claim of right?

In my turbo tax desktop edition, I followed the instructions regarding how to amend our 2022 joint federal return due to a "claim of right" (my wife had to repay a retention bonus in 2022 that she received in 2021). The amending of the 2022 federal r... read more

How do I correct state id number? I put the abreveation for the state with the number?

State and local income tax deduction is larger than sales tax deduction, but Turbo tax chose the smaller sale tax deduction and won't let me change to the larger amount?

why cannot I change to the larger amount?

it says Check This Entry Principal address City-TP what is this?

on my state taxes

Allocating non-resident New York State taxes not reported on a W-2

I am using the desktop edition. I receive a W-2 for work in NJ, and I live in NJ, but I have worked in New York City 33 days last year. I want to allocate my income based on days. My wife has a K-1 that has a small percentage as NY State sourced inco... read more

S-corp had long term gain from merger. How to enter into Ohio tax form

We owned stock in Ohio s-corp that merged with another company. The capital gain realized was 148,000. I have finished my federal form but do not know how to enter it into the Ohio form. Also on the Ohio it K-1 it showed a loss for the shareholder am... read more

2025 Windows Desktop software has erroneous e-file counter

We have 5 taxpayers in our family and I file all their taxes. We usually e-file Federal and wait for it to be accepted before e-filing state. This year, everything proceeded smoothly for the first four returns. For the fifth one, the Federal worked f... read more

2025 Illinois Underpayment Missing - Calculation Bug?

I am stumped this year in the Illinois tax penalty section as to why it is not showing that I owe a penalty? I know I do and in prior years, i.e. 2024, etc the amount showed. I did not fill out the annualization form (IL-2210) because it did not pop ... read more

IA 1040 Step 4 Line 2 error

The expanded instructions for the 2025 IA 1040 Line 2 states:Enter your federal taxable income as reported on federal 1040, line 15. If the amount of federal taxable income is zero, subtract the amount reported on IA 1040 lines 1d and 1e, and federal... read more

CA NR - tax penalty for late filing after home sale.

Hi all,Here's my situation. I'm a CA non-resident. Sold my rental property and the title co. paid CA the required 3.3%. Turbotax CA return picked up the payment no problem, but its showing a late penalty! Sale and withholding was made in the 4th quar... read more

Why does the Deductions & Credits section not have an option to add assets?

I've imported business expenses from Quickbooks Self-Employed, but when I edit those categorized expenses, Turbotax does not give an option to add assets.