Estimated payments
If I made estimated payments to the Franchise Tax Board, do I enter the payments on my Federal or State return?
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If I made estimated payments to the Franchise Tax Board, do I enter the payments on my Federal or State return?
To be clear, you enter both federal and state estimated tax payments in the same general area (the one that Collen showed), but you are not actually entering the FTB estimated tax payments on your federal return.
If you look at her screenshot, you will see that federal estimated tax payments and state estimated tax payments have two separate links.
So did you actually enter the FTB estimated tax payments on the first link or the second?
That is, did the estimated tax payments appear as part of line 26 on your 1040 or as part of line whatever on form 540 (sorry, the form has been withdrawn by the state for updating). If the estimated tax payments for the state actually appears on your 1040, then, yes, you will need to amend...
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