Federal law limits your state and local tax (SALT) deduction to $10,000 if single or married filing jointly, and $5,000 if married filing separately. California does not allow a deduction of state and local income taxes on your state return.
California does allow deductions for your real estate tax and vehicle license fees, and does not limit them to $10,000.
When you enter all of your deductible state and local taxes in the Federal section, TurboTax will limit the Federal deduction to $10,000 ($5,000 for MFS). When you complete the California return, TurboTax will adjust the taxes as needed. The property taxes will not be limited, and the income taxes will be eliminated. You can see the adjustments on California Schedule CA, where all of the California and Federal differences are reconciled, under Part II, Itemized Deductions, Taxes You Paid, Lines 5 through 7.
If you are using the Desktop version of TurboTax, switch to Forms mode and look at Schedule CA.
If you are using the Online version, to view or print an individual worksheet from your return, before you file but after you pay for your product, you can go to Tax Tools, then Print Center. Choose to print all forms and worksheets, and save to PDF. You can then open the PDF and choose what worksheet to print. Or, you can use your device's Print Screen function.
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