Turbo Tax Insisting on Filing Calif LLC Form 3522

[fssbob]

I've just completed e-filing using Turbo Tax Deluxe. Regarding my small business LLC:

I've already paid my $800 California LLC tax for 2026. But when filing my 2025 return, Turbo Tax was insisting on preparing Form 3522, thus requiring me to pay the 2026 fee again. Deleting the form didn't do any good--it just came back. I finally got around this by entering a $0 in the form, overriding the $800.

Turbo Tax did properly prepare my Form 568 for 2025--which includes the fact that I paid my $800 for 2025.

Two questions:

1) Maybe Turbo Tax was just going to print the Form 3522 and not e-file it, in which case it wouldn't matter?

The Turbo Tax Macintosh "Tax form availability" screen for form 3522 has conflicting statements both saying that it IS and ISN'T e-filed. (Go to https://form-status.app.intuit.com/tax-forms-availability/formsavailability?albRedirect=true&product... and enter 1040, CA-California, and 3522.)

2) I assume that the Form 568 WAS e-filed. Please confirm that it is normally e-filed. (The screen referenced above says that it IS e-filed.)

Thanks.

[RobertB4444]

1 - That may be the case.  It's often difficult to convince the system that you have already paid something - it is designed to err on the side of caution - but it should not autodraft for that.  

2 - If you received a confirmation that the form was efiled then it was.

[fssbob]

1) Unless I missed something, could you pass along a suggestion that Turbo Tax make it clear the Form 3522 is only being made available for print, rather than being e-filed?

2) Yup, I got a notice that the Form 568 was e-filed, which is what I wanted.

Thanks for your help!