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To get rid of CA form 3554, you need to delete the CA return and start over. Make sure that you do not go into the "New Employment Credit Recapture."
To remove a state from your return in TurboTax please follow these steps:
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You can delete your TurboTax Online state return as long as you haven't paid for it yet (or registered in a free version):
If you don't see the Edit or Delete button on the Status of Your State Returns screen and haven't paid or registered, please do the following:
AshleyRose explains how form 3554 was generated in your return:
Most likely what happened is when you got the portion of your CA state return that says " Credit and Taxes" if you scroll down the page there is a section called "Credit Recapture" and right underneath it says, “New Employment Credit Recapture. Learn More". Clicking start on this portion brings you to a screen that says, “New Employment Credit Recapture". Here you will see "where it says "New Employment Credit Recapture" and there is a box where there must have been a figure inserted, most likely "0" if you did not need this credit. Putting a figure in that box automatically populated that form causing it to now give you errors on the State Return review asking numerous questions about form 3554. Unfortunately, at this point you cannot go to delete a form or even go back to that box and remove the "0"
So I deleted and started again and did not go into any recapture and it is still there not allowing me to e-file.
What do we do now?
Try these instructions do delete CA form 3554.
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