The software will not let me enter my California tax exempt dividends- can you please help?

[AmyC]

Here are the steps:

1. Return to federal
2. Income & Expenses
3. locate Dividends on 1099-DIV
4. Edit/Add
5. Select the one with CA exempt dividends and click Review
6. screen Let's get the info from your 1099-DIV
7. Check the box My form has info in other boxes (this is uncommon).
8. Box 11 Exempt-interest dividends would have a number there
9. Continue
10. Tell us if any of these uncommon situation apply to you
11. select None of these apply
12. Continue
13. Tell us more about your exempt-interest dividends
14. Select whichever button is correct for you
15. Enter all the states and exempt interest
16. Continue

That will flow into the state return for you.

[SteamTrain]

Here's a complication...

1)  for CA residents, they can only declare the CA amount from box 11...only if the Fund concerned  has invested at least 50% of its holdings in CA Bonds or US Government obligations./...otherwise you must t select "Multiple States" for all of it  (At the end of the drop-down states list).

2) IF the fund does qualify, when you get to the listing page, you only have to break out the CA amount, any US Territories, and the remaining amount is just totaled as "Multiple States"  (You don't have to list all the other states)

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An example of a breakdown for an NC resident would look like this: