What addresses to use for California Form 540; top of form versus Principal Residence address? No Longer Resident.

[Cali_Tax01]

Confused as to which address should be at the top of 2021 Form 540 and in the Principal Residence Section of the form.

Was a resident for all of 2021 in California (CA), then established residency in Connecticut (CT) in January 2022. Turbotax populated the address at the top of CA Form 540 with my new CT mailing / residence address as was inputted for the Federal tax section.

My question is in the “Principal Residence” section of CA form 540 should I check, “If your address above is the same as your principal/physical residence address at the time of filing, check this box”? Or do I not check the box and then enter my residence address during year 2021 in California?

[MaryK4]

On your tax return, you always want to enter the current address at the time you are filing the return- this is so the Tax Department can contact you about the return.  IT MUST BE AN ADDRESS WHERE YOU WILL RECEIVE MAIL.