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I am not sure what your question is.
A "use tax" is a tax in lieu of sales tax, that is collected from you, the taxpayer, on items that you purchased from out-of-stat (typically over the Internet), but which you use, give away, store, or consume in side of California. That is, California is collecting the sales tax that you would have paid had you purchased the item inside the state of California.
Many states now impose a use tax on their residents.
The question is asking for the dollar amount of purchases you made outside the state that were used or consumed in California.
Please the following for California's Use Tax page for individual filers - https://www.ftb.ca.gov/individuals/use-tax.shtml
It seems Turbo Tax forgot to add the above-mentioned CA Use Tax question into its Easy Step questionnaire, so now it is left to the consumer to figure out this out on their own even though they paid for Turbo Tax to make sense of it for them.
And here we are two and a half years later and it is still not fixed
2021 is the first time this error appears to me... Am I supposed to track all CA taxes I paid online? Makes no sense... I think something is messed up in my return. If this was common, this page would have 100's of complaints...
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