Spouse's portion of Federal tax refund

[skeller]

I'm working on our Iowa state tax return, and the program auto-filled my (spouse) portion (left-hand column) with a number that is greater than our total refund, which is correctly filled in as the total (right-hand column).  Is this a glitch in the program?  Do I change it (my portion of the correct total) to be split equally between us?

[SamS1]

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[skeller]

The problem I was having was that the program was populating my (spouse's) amount with what looks like a random number rather than the proportion that should be allotted to me, imported/calculated from the 2019 tax return.  I think what happened was that we had a net loss on a rental property in 2019, which gave my husband a negative income.  I don't think TurboTax knew how to handle that.  I made the entries manually.  I would caution others to double check what's being imported and not just take for granted that it's accurate!