Here is my take on this issue. The main problems are:
1) Turbotax's treatment of lines 22 and 23 on CA (540) and the transfer of these numbers to lines 14 and 16 on Form 540 are completely screwed up.
2) The CA FTB's instructions are either a) extremely unclear or b) completely wrong regarding the transfer of the CA (540) line 23 numbers to lines 14 and 16 on Form 540.
I don't think there is anything wrong on the Federal side wrt. this issue. I hope Turbotax's update will be done with the assistance of CA FTB, so FTB realizes the instructions are bad and gets them fixed.
