@ Pipsquad wrote:
I am not able to efile either. The message I’m getting is that some forms aren’t ready yet and it’s apparently some California Adjustment. It’s says Schedule Ca. What does this even mean?
@ Pipsquad
You cannot efile the CA return prior to the Federal return. You must efile them either at the same time, or you can efile the Federal first (if all your Fed forms are available), then efile the state return later after the Federal return has been accepted and all your state forms are available.
The REVIEW tab should tell you what forms you are waiting for.
The California Schedule CA (California Adjustments) is projected to be available for printing and efiling on January 30.
That form is used to make adjustments (on your CA state return) to your Federal AGI and deductions allowed by California law by using allowed "additions and subtractions" that the TurboTax state interview would have asked you about.
Here's how you can check on the availability of both Federal and California state forms:
TurboTax IRS Federal Forms Availability Table:
https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/forms/help/irs-forms-availability-table-for-turbotax-individual-pe...
State Forms Availability Table:
https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/forms/help/state-forms-availability-table-for-turbotax-individual-...
The IRS doesn't open up to start processing returns until January 27. Even if you are able to efile before then, your return will just sit on TurboTax servers until the IRS retrieves it on Jan. 27 (except for a few returns that are pulled early for testing purposes.) If you efile before January 27 and discover an error you need to correct, you can't retrieve the return. If the IRS accepts the return on or after Jan. 27, then the only way to correct anything is with an amended return.
NOTE: Even though you may be able to efile now, by law the IRS will not issue a refund on tax returns claiming the Earned Income Tax Credit or Additional Child Tax Credit until February 15 at the earliest.
