For the CA Covid-19 Relief Grant, Intuit's software could be improved.

This grant is taxable to Federal but not CA. 

The instruction gets the right result - taxable Fed but not CA. However, the presentation is poor.  Schedule CA has a negative number in the subtractions column.  That won't pass the sniff or eye test for my clients who review their tax returns.  (540 page 1 looks fine and is correct.)

Intuit, I think you can do better.

 

Do these improvement suggestions get to the right person?  @IntuitAlicia 

 

If the return has grants taxable to federal, but not the state, you should enter those as a negative number with a Description in the Other subtractions (Ctrl + E) field, on Screen 51.011, California Modifications, in the Adjustments to Income section.