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I have a partnership that invests in other partnerships and there are 10 state K-1s that have adjustments and apportionments on them. The federal does a good job of allowing me to enter all the federal K-1 info but that same functionality is missing on the state side. Since most of the information would just roll up into the top-tiered state K-1, why can't I just add the lower-tiered state K-1? The state K-1s don't tell me HOW they arrived at their apportionment ratios, they just TELL me what it is. But, on a state return I have to provide all that info, which will be different from the ratio of the lower-tiered state K-1. Which means I have to manually input the state source adjustments and source income (in addition to my top-tiered partnership) and attach the state k-1 to the state return. When the developers could just allow lower-tiered K-1s to be added and then roll up into the applicable fields on the state return. Why does this functionality only exist for Individual returns and not 1065s? Again, why am I adding lower-tiered info (field by field) when it could just as easily be rolled up (for those lines where it easily matches)? Based on my call with support, Lacerte and ProConnect have a screen that allows input of factors by state... which would also be helpful in ProSeries. Someone suggested adding K-1 activity sheets, but I can't figure out how to add them for just a state, or at the state level, without it being considered an additional partner at the upper-tiered level. Should I be switching to another software that can handle lower-tiered K-1 input screens?