If your efiled Federal return has been
accepted, and if all your California state forms are now available, you should be able to go back and open up your State
return
to complete and file it. Carefully review
it before filing since the forms may have updated since you last worked
on it.
Here's a way to open the state
return back up. Don't make any changes to the Federal return, since it
has already been filed.
- Log in and go to the section "Your Tax Returns & Documents." Click on that line or the word SHOW to expand that section.
- Choose 2017.
- Choose "Add a state." (you're not really adding one; that's just to get the return to open up.)
- Once the return is open, you can go to the State Taxes tab to complete the state return.
Carefully review it before filing since some of the forms may have
updated. Continue in that section until it says "Done with State" (or similar words.)
- Also step through the REVIEW tab to run the error check and be sure all is in order.
- Then go to the FILE section to select a filing method, and choose to file only the State return.
- If efiling, make sure you go all the way to the end and click on "Transmit My Returns Now."
- If filing by mail, you will need to print, sign, and mail the return yourself. TurboTax does not mail it for you.
NOTE: Do NOT use this method to open a return to make changes/edits to an
already-filed return (one that has actually been mailed or efiled.)
If you later need to make changes to an already-filed return, you have to
go through the formal amending process, and your return must start off
exactly as originally filed.
