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Issues with CA Form 3800.

I can be claimed by my parents for 2025 as a dependent. I started graduate school and established residency in California during 2025, and some of my scholarships were considered taxable and exceeded 2700$. Unfortunately, I could not claim any education credits and my parents were also ineligible. This means that, for my federal return, I had to fill out Form 8615. 

 

TurboTax is prompting me to fill out form 3800, when I am completing my CA state taxes. However, my parents are not residents of CA and did not receive any CA-source income, since they live in another state. Therefore, they did not complete CA Form 540 or Form 540NR. How do I proceed with Form 3800 in this case? 

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Issues with CA Form 3800.

I believe there is an issue with the form. Since my parents do not live in CA, I entered 0 for all lines prompting me about their 540/540NR. Line 18 says that it should take the the maximum of line 16 and line 17, but the value in line 18 is not corresponding to either of those, but is a higher number instead. I believe this is a bug with the software. My token number is #[phone number removed][phone number removed]6

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