After you file

You all should start a new thread to get some replies to your specific 568 problems. I started this tread over a year ago and there is a lot of unanswered questions asked in this thread that don't pertain to my original question (sorry I don't have the answer to your questions). You will get better answers starting a new thread with relative subject line, otherwise people won't look in here. 

 

For everyone else, the answer to my original question is that Turbo Tax makes you mail in form 568 every year if you use Turbo Tax Home & Business. I have a single entity LLC and I met all requirements of e-file according to their website, but it still made me get a waiver and mail in form 568 again this year. This was confirmed by other users on reddit as well. 

 

For my 2019 568 form (that I didn't mail in originally), I sent it in 2020 when I caught the bug/mistake and put a note with it explaining that turbo tax didn't inform me in 2019 and I didn't have any issues from the FTB (since I didn't owe tax). 

 

Honestly, I'm going to pay a tax preparer next year as this software leaves so many blanks and leaves you to fend for yourself. There is no point buying this automated software if you have to do deep research into the blanks they don't fill in.  The money savings with using TurboTax over an expert tax preparer is not worth the stress.