home office excess mortgage interest, state CA if different (direct expense)

[AbbyLovold]

Hi! I have a request for a state home office input.

Since federal limits how much mortgage interest can be deducted on schedule A, I deduct the excess mortgage interest on the home office schedule (if my client has one). However, CA does not limit how much mortgage interest can be deducted on schedule A, so it deducts the full amount on its schedule A, but then takes the excess mortgage interest that I input for federal and ends up double counting it for CA. Is there a way to make it so that the CA home office form does not take the federal excess mortgage interest? I found an input for this for "indirect expenses," where if you input -1 for "excess mortgage interest, state if different," then the CA home office form does not take the input I made for federal. Is there a way we could get this exact same input but for "direct expenses" as well?

Thanks! 🙂