Actually, from someone else's question on here, it helped me find a spot on Part II / Column E / Row 12 on the 540NR form to fill in CA amount without using Schedule R that I'd heard about on the FTB website. (Posting that info in case any else is having trouble figuring out where to enter the CA Source amount.)
And that seems to be working. It seems to let me manually enter the amount of CA Source after tax write offs on the schedule c that apply to that job. (B/c the full amount it shows for 1099 schedule c is also after full deductions which include the home office I used to do the job in GA.) So hopefully that will work. I owe them so little. And yet I'll have to pay $135 for not filing and who knows what in interest for the past 3 years that will surpass what I originally owed. I still think states should protest this. But what do I know? 🙂
