I'm doing my 2019 federal and California nonresident (540NR) state taxes in TurboTax desktop. I have federal and CA capital loss carryovers from 2018. I've completed everything and now reviewing the PDF.
I see section "2018 State Capital Loss Carryovers (For users not transferring from the prior year)" at the bottom of page 3 of the Federal Carryover Worksheet. This section has one entry for CA lists the correct carryover amount in the "Capital Loss (combined for State)" column.
If this section was simply titled "2018 State Capital Loss Carryovers" then I'd have no questions.
But I don't know what they mean by the phrase "For users not transferring from the prior year". What does it mean by "not transferring from the prior year"?
