participants of CA ETF program

[hgtc]

C-corp is a participant of CA ETF program.  It owed 2025 CA taxes.  Taxpayer wants to have 2025 CA taxes due and all 2026 CA estimated taxes to be directly withdrawn from its bank account.  But we got e-file critical warming of "electronic payment of balance due is not allowed for participants of CA ETF program", need to "verify which payment method should be used".

Does anyone know how to solve this e-file issue?

Thanks.

[Karl · Accepted solution]

Uncheck the mandatory ETF participant checkbox. That checkbox is only 1) to suppress payment stubs, and 2) to format the Client Letter to take away mention of mailing payments.

It's a programming glitch that happened last year in the individual module that they thankfully fixed there this year, but it looks like they didn't get this in the C-Corp module.

[hgtc]

Thanks.