@mikeo 

Over the past several years Intuit ProSeries has had problems keeping up with the myriad of individual state return changes required by each state's department of revenue.  The states are requiring additional  information to be included with their state returns filings and they are using the tax preparer community to collect and submit this data.  Yes, they force us to do their data collection work for them.  Much of said additional info is not necessarily used for computing the taxpayer's tax liability, it is purely data mining.  

A federal return that was 15 to 20 pages in length 30 years ago is 70 to 75 pages in length today.  What happened to the Paper Reduction Act?  It went electronic.  The state DORs are just following along behind the Feds and expanding their data mining operations.  If your primary state gets involved then you will be involved.