BAqs
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State tax filing

Thanks.

Undergraduate student involved here. Did not get any paperwork for this provost fellowship or award, just credited to my college student account periodically and I withdrew it to my bank account. Did not have any state tax withheld in CA on the W-2,  so I guess I don't need to file, but shouldn't TurboTax tell me that?

Last year (no fellowships or awards) I worked in summer and got $8 back, even though I had asked that employer not to withhold any state taxes. Can I not file 2024 CA taxes if I did in 2023? 

 

Also, I thought Federal standard deduction for dependents is supposed to be earned income plus $450.  My total was 11023 and dependent deduction calculated by Turbotax was 11163.  Both are below the regular standard deduction, so that doesn't seem right either.