I am thrilled that progress has been made.  However, unless I am missing something, Lacerte is still not calculating NC correctly, at least not for those taxpayers that have less itemized deductions than the federal standard deduction but have more than the NC standard deduction.  The program is defaulting to the standard deduction for NC when the standard was used on the federal.  This was in fact the law in previous years but according to page 18 of the 2018 NC instructions, "You may deduct from federal adjusted gross income either the NC standard deduction or NC itemized deductions even if you did not claim itemized deductions on your federal return...."