filed a california partnership instead of California LLC, What do I do?

[jcasti37]

In turbotax business (desktop) I filed the california llc and california partnership , I DO NOT know why turbotax charged me for the partnership if for the past 3 years I have file for the california llc without issues.  So I did not notice and the partnership got accepted while the California LLC got rejected because the other one got accepted.  What do I do now? I need to change it so I can also pay the franchise fees as I have been paying for 3 years.  I have an LLC with someone else, and I am guessing not paying the franchise fees and filing as california partnership is not legal.  I need help.

[RobertB4444]

TurboTax business uses the federal tax return to decide which state tax return you'll file.  I'm not sure how you switched from filing a corporation return to a partnership return but you did.  

The good news is that filing the partnership return has probably satisfied your filing requirement with the feds and with California.  So the return can't be late now.

You need to amend the return.  You'll need to amend the federal and then the California.  You can do that through TurboTax but you may have to create a corporation return like you usually file and then amend that.

Here is the California amendment page.

[jcasti37]

This is the 3rd year doing this, for some reason when I bought the State tax on the software it bought the California LLC and the partnership ... So turbotax sneaked the partnership for no reason as nothing had change from my last tax return other than numbers, and It did file both the LLC and partnership ..the problem is that partnership got accepted before the llc and i got screwed .. not only did I get screwed there but turbotax charged me an extra 50$ fo no reason  ... why would it sell me BOTH taxes  ... I want my money back as well.

[wmwm]

Exact same thing happened to me. Intuit added State Partnership to my return for some inexplicable reason. Partnership was accepted while LLC was rejected. Now I’m out the $55 and need to figure out how to fix the problem. 

[wmwm]

Robert — thanks for the insight. TurboTax's "Amend a Return" dropdown only shows the rejected LLC return, not the federal or state partnership returns that were accepted. Are you suggesting starting a completely new return file in TurboTax and somehow amending that? Any further guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[RobertB4444]

@wmwm  You need to file the rejected LLC return, yes?  Select that from the amend a return dropdown.  Just opening it at that point will file an amended version of the return.  Since you finished preparing it all you need to do is check the 'amended' box on the LLC return and file it.  That is how you will do it.

[wmwm]

Thank you! I was able to re-file after following your instructions. I appreciate your assistance.