@soozau wrote:
I now live in WA and have been using Turbo Tax for many years. For 22,23 and 24, I worked for two CA employers. I am a W2 employee for one of them and a 1099 contractor for the other. Is TurboTax smart enough to not have reported my W2 income on my CA tax returns for those years? Or do I need to amend my CA taxes for those years and hopefully get a refund?
You need to check your own returns. Download or print the PDF of your return, does it include a CA state income tax return, and what is reported?
If you are a W-2 employee in Washington state for a California-based employer, your wages are not taxable in California. Turbotax would only create a CA state return if you told it to, or if you had California tax withholding in box 16 and 17 of your W-2. If you did have CA withholding, you would have filed a CA non-resident return to report no state wages, no state tax owed, and claim a refund of the withholding. (And you should contact your employers to stop any CA withholding.)
If you are self-employed, California taxes your income if your client(s) are located in California, regardless of where you lived or physically performed the work. This is something you would have to declare yourself, and you would have to manually allocate your self-employment income to California (all or part, depending on the facts.)
