I am itemizing my deductions on my federal return but TurboTax won't let me itemize on my Maryland taxes.

[MatthewR87]

I've run into a really odd issue. I am itemizing my deductions for my federal tax return. However, when I fill out my Maryland tax return Turbotax defaults to the standard deduction and does not let me select the itemized deduction. Any ideas what is going on? I have TurboTax Premier for PC. Thanks. 

[MatthewR87]

I think I figured out the issue. Apparently Maryland aggressively phases out itemized deductions based on AGI, which is why TurboTax was having me take the paltry $6700 standard deduction, because my itemized deduction was phased out to $0 :(

[ThomasM125]

The program will do that automatically if the standard deduction is more favorable for you. That may be the case especially when you have a large amount of state taxes deductible on your federal return but not on your state return.