Please make sure you have the required carryover worksheet and you fall within the income limits.
Your 2018 liability has to be in the program in order for it to calculate anything. The only thing that shows last year's tax liability for CA is the Carryover worksheet- named Carryover Wks. If this is missing from your return, your program does not have the information from last year, therefore, it does the default of entering this year the second time. What I gave above was the exact method used by the program to calculate line 5 for Form 5805.
If your income is above those limits, then there is no other calculation, it goes straight to the default again. Your income may exceed those limits.
If your CA Carryover Wks is in the program, it should be carrying and calculating. Since yours is not, either the worksheet is missing, your income exceeds the limits, or something odd is happening. My worksheet shows and calculates correctly.
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