This thread seems to be the most applicable to my situation, but I can't get the workaround described here to work for me.
My daughter has unearned income from a scholarship which exceeded her tuition (but not her room and board). This is showing correctly on the federal form with SCH on line 1 in addition to her earned income, and she owes a small amount of federal tax because the award exceeds her standard deduction (expensive school).
She is an Iowa resident, but attending school in California, and also has earned income in both states, so she has to file in both, resident in Iowa and non-resident in California. I am *assuming*, but can't really find a clear answer anywhere, that her excess financial aid is attributable to Iowa, not California. Her 1098-T was issued to her home address in Iowa.
My wife and I filed jointly and are in no way required to file in California. We are Iowa residents with no income outside Iowa in 2021.
Turbotax will not let me finish and file the forms without completing the FSB 3800, which requires entries from the parents' 540NR, which does not exist. If I manually delete the 3800 in forms view, as suggested above, everything looks great (she owes $11 in California, the form checks okay, and owes $11 less in Iowa, and that form checks okay). But when Turbotax does the final verification prior to e-filing, it re-creates the 3800 and demands those entries, and modifies both the Iowa and California forms accordingly.
I guess I can copy all the numbers onto a PDF for each state, but Turbotax is supposed to make my life easier, not harder! I already spent $45 per state to have it do the forms for me. Seems dumb if I then can't actually file them. I would do this in a heartbeat rather than do a 540NR for us when we don't otherwise need to, though (and pay to e-file it, too, no doubt...it might well cost us close to $100 to get an $11 refund in the end if we have to e-file for both her and us in addition to the sunk cost of the form).
Anyway, thanks for any help or suggestions.
