I don't have employee business expenses. The California State return keeps showing Employee Business Expenses and says I can't e-file. What do I do?

[ThomasM125]

You may have some employee business expenses listed on your federal return, as something may have transfered over from a previous year. I suggest you go to your federal return, to the "Deductions and Credits" section and find "Employment" and then "Job Related Expenses". Enter that section and see if anything is listed under "Job-Related Expenses Summary". If so, you should delete that entry.

If that does not work, you can find the "Tax Tools" menu option on your left menu bar, and then choose "Tools" and you will see an option to "Delete a Form". Click on that option and search for form 2106 and if you find it, delete it. That is the form that reports your employee business expenses.

You should go back to your state return and run through it each time you try one of the remedies I suggested to make sure everything registers in the program.

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