Thank you for your reply! I have deleted the CA return and re-entered everything and the program is still populating the CA form 3800. And I can not delete the unearned income directly from form 3800 because it is a fixed entry and can not be changed or overridden. It pulls this info from federal form 8516.
From researching this community, I see that this has occurred for other people. Hopefully Turbotax will address this glitch and fix it. The CA tax return Turbotax interview questions specifically ask for the California sourced income (you have to apportion how much of one's unearned income is CA sourced versus sourced elsewhere). I put a zero in the correct spots in the Turbotax interview section to show that there was *no* CA sourced unearned income. These entries should "tell" the program the the CA form 3800 is not needed, despite the fact that the tax filer is filing a federal form 8615, but it does not.
In my situation, Turbotax is assuming that just because a CA 540NR tax filer has unearned income taxed at the federal level, that is has to be taxed at the CA state level and the interview questions that "tell" the program otherwise are not cancelling out this assumption in the program.
Unless this is resolved by Turbotax, or unless someone has come up with a workaround, this glitch will force me to mail in my return rather than e-file, so that I can exclude the form 3800. Not the end of the world by any means, but not what I would prefer to do.
Any other ideas on how to get rid of the unneeded form 3800?
