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What's the deal with no final California forms?

Forum|Forum|5 months ago
January 26, 2026
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It's January 26. Why is it that there are no California Forms released yet. Says they are ready for efile, but will print "blank". FTB site show a form in final status. When will they be out? Also curious if Pro Series and TurboTax have their forms ready.

Lacerte Tax

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danobaseball

Level 4

So frustrating... I hate this period. I have dozens of business returns I can complete and file, but CA forms are not available. Why?

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rsowensAuthor

Level 4

Support doesn't know either. I asked when I called about another matter. I don't understand why we can't get an answer, especially with efile open. The diagnostic says Form 540 is efile only. SMH, why not have the form available if we can efile it.

IRonMaN

Level 15

"why not have the form available if we can efile it"

That's the 8th wonder of the world. Intuit does things like that every year but nobody outside of Intuit has solved that one yet.

Slava Ukraini!

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danobaseball

Level 4

It's interesting (not really) that we can e-file the CA return, but cannot print CA forms.

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danobaseball

Level 4

Nothing yet. WHY?

January 27, 4:45PM

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rsowensAuthor

Level 4

And no response from Lacerte! Why leave us in the dark? I have a stack of returns ready to process and just waiting on Lacerte. ridiculous.

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danobaseball

Level 4

Same here...

Apparently Lacerte thinks tax season starts in February.

I was able to do a MO S-Corp (yipee).

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CovertOperations

Level 3

Now it's January 29th and still no answers. I can't even show a client a draft of the California return unless then are sitting in front of me looking at my computer screen. No work around to print???

Ugh...

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strongsilence

Level 10

Yeah, keep complaining! That is our job. Have you considered Drake?

(I'm quite certain they don't have enough programmers.)

I would really like a dedicated California team. I have asked for upgrades to the CA returns for years, at least three years. Except for possibly NY, we CA preparers are Intuit's biggest clients! I'd like them to do better for us.

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CovertOperations

Level 3

I just did the program update as soon as we got the notification of the new version after lunch today and still no Ca forms so I called again.

The Lacerte CSR didn't have any more information, but said possible by 2/6! She was very friendly, but didn't get my humor when i said "You're killing me, Smalls!!!"

sjrcpa

Level 15

@CovertOperations You actually called about this? Kathi, an Intuit employee, said yesterday there is no known date for when you can print them. Of course Phone Support doesn't have any info.

The more I know the more I don’t know.

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johnwaynemovies

Level 2

when will california forms be printable

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danobaseball

Level 4

Well, it's Friday January 30, 2026. I'd love to come in tomorrow and work, but wait, no, the CA tax software is not ready. Come on Lacerte- tell us what's going on. This is ridiculous! Every year it gets later and later. Why is this not ready? Are you going to waste another week?

If you don't know, IT'S TAX SEASON. California tax prs need to get started.

What's going on? Don't tell me to look at the form Availability Tool, because it stinks, it tells me nothing.

When will these be ready? I'm ready to give Thomson Reuters a call. For the price you charge, you should be working day and night to get this ready.

COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE!!!!!

Any answer Lacerte?

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strongsilence

Level 10

Have you tried ChatGPT for preparing a tax return?

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strongsilence

Level 10

Try Drake Tax Software | Free Trial for Tax Professionals

Free trial.

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screengazer

Level 3

It is Feb 3 -- still no forms. WTF???

I can't wait half the season for the forms!!!
And what is the deal with the "15 day timeframe since the forms get released"? 15 days is 1/6 of the filing season. For all the money Lacerte charges, can't they put some people to work and finalize them within a couple of days of release?

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ZBologna

Level 3

I bet INTUIT wasted no time in making sure TurboTax state forms were ready to go on day 1. This is wildly inappropriate given the high premium cost of Lacerte.

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Don W

Level 2

I agree. They use our money to develop Turbo Tax and undercharge consumers for that program. Then treat us like we are not important and never have the program ready until after Turbo Tax is all good.

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rsowensAuthor

Level 4

And I just saw a commercial for Turbo Tax where they're advertising $150 tax prep. "All In"

SMH.

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