Where do i enter prepaid California state taxes in TurboTax 2022?

[Henry Tang]

I prepaid California state tax online from ftb.ca.gov in the middle of 2022. Please tell me how to enter this prepaid state tax amount, so I can get this credit in TurboTax.

[hbl3973]

HenryTang,

The place to enter it is as an estimated tax payment on the California return.  Go to Deductions & Credits in the FEDERAL area and select Estimated Taxes.  Select the State Estimated Payments and you would enter the amount you paid online in the 3rd quarter line (assuming the payment was made in the July to August time period) and modify the date paid from 9/15/2022 to the date you actually paid.

A couple of caveats:

(a) I sincerely hope you entered it as a 2022 estimated tax payment and not something else such as a payment for year 2021.  

(b) It may be useful to fill in CA form 5805 and quite possibly the annualized income option in the event that your withholdings and estimated tax payment didn't cover the required percentages of what CA required to be paid during the year.  See 

https://www.ftb.ca.gov/forms/2022/2022-5805-instructions.html

for those details.

[SharonD007]

If you paid estimated or quarterly tax payments for your California taxes, you would enter these payments in Estimate’s and Other Income Taxes Paid section. Please follow the instructions below:

1. Launch TurboTax
2. In the search bar at the top enter, estimated tax payments, and select jump to in the search results
3. Select Estimates and Other Taxes Paid
4. Select Start/Revisit next to Estimates and Other Taxes Paid
5. Select Start by State Estimated Taxes
6. Enter the amount of estimated tax you paid at each of the quarterly due dates.

For more information, please see the TurboTax article Where do I enter my estimated tax payments?