We still need it to calculate for all individuals who qualify under the old rules.  Iowa and other states did not OK the new tax rules so therefore we have to calculate DPAD for our clients and Proseries has not released the form.  You also have to have it for federal purposes.  

Sure you can plop the figure for patronage dividends passed thru from coop's on line 36 of Schedule 1 but you are still supposed to complete form 8903 before you do even that.  So there is 2 separate reasons you need the form.