My California return shows a mortgage interest adjustment. That would not apply to me; is this a mistaken reference to the property tax adjustment?

[CherylW]

Maybe not.

This, from www.ftb.ca.gov/current/income-tax-reform.shtml:

• Federal law limits deductions for home mortgage interest on mortgages up to $750,000 for loans taken out after December 15, 2017.
• California allows deductions for home mortgage interest on mortgages up to $1 million. 

[jennifer-monahan]

This is not my situation: my mortgage is under the $750K federal cap.

[CherylW]

is your adjustment positive or negative?

[CherylW]

It could be because of this:

Mortgage Interest Credit – If you reduced your federal mortgage interest

deduction by the amount of your mortgage interest credit (from federal Form

8396 , Mortgage Interest Credit), increase your California itemized deductions

by the same amount. Enter the amount of your federal mortgage interest

credit on line 8, column C. 

[jennifer-monahan]

I did not receive a mortgage interest credit.