"This is the base tax, or the amount of tax if all your income was earned in CA." Not sure what you mean, sorry I don't grasp the way it's worded here... "if all your income was earned in CA". Do you mean, "AS IF" all my income was earned in CA? Because these stock trades were not earned in CA and have nothing to do with CA. (If that's what you meant, then Wow, how one 2-letter word makes all the difference in clearing it up). Then I suspect they (California) are just trying to guage how poor or wealthy I am in order to know which of their tax brackets to put my rental income in context of. Otherwise, I have no clue.
