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© 2026 OpenAccountants. The free accounting and tax plugin for your AI.

OpenAccountants is a trading name of Glimpse Ltd, a company registered in Malta. We do accounting and tax work for business owners under a separate written engagement. We are not a US CPA firm and do not perform audits; US returns are signed by a US CPA or enrolled agent named in your engagement. Our free skills and automated outputs are general reference material; using them does not create an engagement or submit a filing.

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CA 540 Es Estimated Tax

CaliforniaIncome Tax

California content skill for computing California estimated tax payments under Form 540-ES for full-year California residents who are sole proprietors or single-member LLCs disregarded for federal tax. Covers the California 30/40/0/30 installment schedule (NOT equal quarterly like federal), due dates (April 15, June 15, September 15, January 15), the 100% prior-year safe harbor, underpayment penalty computation on Form 5805 / 5805-F, required annual payment rules, interaction with federal estimated tax (separate payments to separate agencies), and withholding credits from W-2 or backup withholding.

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CA 540 Individual Return

CaliforniaIncome TaxTax year 2026

California Form 540 for full-year resident sole proprietors and single-member LLC owners, tax year 2026 with 2025 filing notes: Schedule CA adjustments (no bonus depreciation, California section 179 limit, no QBI or HSA deduction), deductions, brackets, exemption credits, Behavioral Health Services Tax, AMT, renter's credit, CalEITC and YCTC, deadlines and estimated tax.

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CA Estimated Tax 540es

CaliforniaIncome TaxTax year 2025

California content skill for computing California estimated tax payments under Form 540-ES for full-year California residents who are sole proprietors or single-member LLCs disregarded for federal tax. Covers the California 30/40/0/30 installment schedule (NOT equal quarterly like federal), due dates (April 15, June 15, September 15, January 15), the 100% prior-year safe harbor, underpayment penalty computation on Form 5805 / 5805-F, required annual payment rules, interaction with federal estimated tax (separate payments to separate agencies), and withholding credits from W-2 or backup withholding.

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CA Sales Use Tax

CaliforniaIncome Tax

California sales and use tax, CDTFA filings, California district taxes, California exemptions, California nexus, or any request involving California state sales and use tax compliance.

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Freelance Intake in California

CaliforniaIncome TaxTax year 2026

Intake for a full-year California resident freelancer (sole proprietor or single-member LLC), tax year 2026 with 2025 extension notes: scope questions, documents, 1099-NEC and DE 542 duties, ABC test, seller's permit, LLC charges, and federal and California estimated tax, routed to the return Guides.

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CA Form 3853 Coverage

CaliforniaIncome TaxTax year 2025

California content skill for Form 3853 (Health Coverage Exemptions and Individual Shared Responsibility Penalty) for California residents under the state individual mandate enacted by SB 78 (2019) and codified at R&TC section 61000 et seq. Covers tax year 2025 including the penalty computation (greater of flat dollar amount or percentage of income), Minimum Essential Coverage (MEC) requirements using the federal ACA definition, month-by-month coverage analysis, exemption categories (affordability, short gap, religious conscience, hardship, and others), Covered California interaction, and reporting forms (1095-A, 1095-B, 1095-C).

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CA LLC Fee And Tax

CaliforniaIncome TaxTax year 2026

California LLC annual tax and LLC fee for tax year 2026: who owes (organized, registered or doing business), the annual tax and the reduced first-year rate from 2027, fee bands, Form 3522, 3536 and 568 deadlines, penalties and cancellation.

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CA PTE Elective Tax

CaliforniaIncome TaxTax year 2026

California pass-through entity (PTE) elective tax skill for partnerships, LLCs taxed as partnerships and S corporations: who qualifies and who can consent, the extension by SB 132 to taxable years beginning before January 1, 2031, the June 15 payment and the credit reduction when it is missed or short, qualified net income for resident and nonresident owners, Form 3804, Form 3893 and the owner credit on Form 3804-CR, OSTC ordering, group returns and withholding, and the federal deduction under IRS Notice 2020-75.

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Leaving California: residency, domicile and the part-year return

CaliforniaIncome TaxTax year 2026

Leaving California for Texas, Florida, Nevada or abroad: who is a California resident under the residency regulations, domicile versus residence, the closest-connection test, the nine-month presumption and six-month visitor rule, the change-of-residence date in a part-year year, which California-source income (real estate, installment sales, wages for work in California, partnerships, non-competes) stays taxable after the move and when retirement income does not, and the records that decide a residency audit.

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Return Assembly in California

CaliforniaIncome TaxTax year 2025

Final orchestrator skill that assembles the complete federal and California filing package for California resident sole proprietors and single-member LLCs disregarded for federal tax. Consumes outputs from all federal content skills (bookkeeping, Schedule C/SE, QBI, retirement, SE health insurance, quarterly estimated tax, federal assembly, 1099-NEC) and all California content skills (540 individual return, 540-ES estimated tax, 568 SMLLC where applicable, 3853 coverage) to produce a single unified reviewer package containing every worksheet, every form, every brief section, all cross-skill reconciliations, and the final taxpayer action list with payment instructions, filing instructions, and 2026 planning. This is the capstone skill that runs last and produces the final deliverable.

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