Hawaii N11 Instructions say:
Line 21d
Gifts to Charity
Hawaii adopted the federal provisions that increases the
adjusted gross income limitation on cash contributions
from 50% to 60%, effective for contributions made in tax
years 2018 through 2025.
Complete Worksheet A-4 on page 32 to figure your
deduction for charitable contributions.
It is not clear in my mind if the above AGI mentioned is Federal or Hawaii
or that both Federal and State of Hawaii have 60% of respective AGI.
Using Turbotax software downloaded and updated on Macbook.
Have made high charity donations and satisfied with Federal Return
The Hawaii return limited my Gifts to Charity to 60% of Hawaii AGI.
Recently just for comparison I tried Taxslayer and Taxfreeusa.
With these tax programs, on Hawaii return they limited Gifts to Charity to 60% of Federal AGI
and thus resulted in higherGifts to Charity allowed and thus itemized deductions higer and Hawaii tax lower.
In my case Hawaii was about $2300 less than what Turbotax calulated.
Is Turbotax correct for Hawaii in using 60% of Hawaii AGI????
The competition software uses for Hawaii 60% of Federal AGI
and for what it worth in the above case, CHATGPT indicates to use
in Hawaii Gift to Charity the same as Federal which limited to 60%
of Federal AGI
