Tax Year Prior to 2020: 2019 CA Form 540-ES Payments

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February 12, 2020
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Upon completion of my 2018 CA State Taxes, Turbo Tax provided a Payment Form 540-ES 2 and a Payment Form 4 540-ES 4. In filing my 2019 CA State Taxes, Turbo Tax provided Payment Forms 1, 2 and 4 for use in 2020 and indicated I owed $1,939.00. Did Turbo Tax not supply the proper number of Payment Forms for use in 2019 and that the owed amount is based on a missing quarterly payment?

VolvoGirl

Level 15

That's right,

California does not want a 3rd quarter estimate payment. They want 30% 40% 0% 30%

rkreklowAuthor

Level 2

So, if Turbo Tax computed my California State Tax and only provided two of the four forms for filing, then the Turbo Tax program malfunctioned. Is that correct? Not sure I can trust Turbo Tax again.

VolvoGirl

Level 15

Exactly what 2 forms did you get? What dates on them? You should have at least 3 for 540ES. It gave me 3. Did you print them? Maybe 1 printed on the back or you ran out of paper? Are you looking through the pdf?

Oh I read your top question again. You only got 2 forms for 2019 estimates? Which ones? What tax due was on them? Did you maybe say to apply a 2018 refund to the first estimated payment? Or if you filed after April 15 you might have said you already made the first payment? Do you still have the pdf of 2018 return? See if all 3 ES slips are there.