Why are my state taxes so much higher than my federal taxes

[rbjenkins5]

My daughter has a scholarship that covers her full tuition and room and board.  I've reported the income on her 1040 (not mine), but federal tax is relatively low (around $150) after her standard deduction is applied.  But Turbo Tax computes her Maryland tax as 6 times larger (over $700) than the federal, which seems quite odd.

[Anita01]

Did she have any tax withheld fr MD during the year?  Did you go through the MD program and answer all the questions?

[rbjenkins5]

NO tax withheld in MD this past yr, and I I did go thru program and answer everything that I’d normally do.  I’ve never seen state tax more than federal, so it just looks odd.

[Anita01]

State tax can easily be higher than Federal because there are many Federal credits not accepted by the state..

[rbjenkins5]

It's not related to credits because there were none on her federal form, but I wondered if it was either related to the change in the tax law, or to a difference between scholarship income and other kinds of income.  Her standard deduction on the federal form this year was high enough (over $8000) that she ended up having relatively low taxable income, but the opposite was true on the Maryland form (where her standard deduction was only around $1800).  That never happened with my other children when they started earning money.