I want to amend a state return where I previously donated some money in my original tax submittal, but TT starts the amended return by showing the amount of my donation as refund.

When I started my IL amended returned (no corrections yet) TT showed tax refund for federal of $0 (correctly), but an amount (equal to my donation on the original state return) of refund owed to me from the state (incorrectly). Both the federal and the state refund tax should be at $0 at the start of my amended return since both my submittals (fed and state) were accepted, and I received my refunds.

After I entered my changes to the amended return, that same amount of what I had previously donated with my original submittal to the state, showed up as if the state owed me that money - which is wrong.

Is this a known TT bug?

I get the correct value (I would owe some money in the amended return) if I manually correct line 34 of the amended return (IL-1040-X) to basically add the amount of my original donation. Is this the proper correction to get around the TT issue?

Thanks!

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