Why is Turbotax Desktop Premium for 2025 not correctly computing Charitbale Donations?

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January 19, 2026
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I imported my cash charitable donations for 2025 into Turbotax Desktop Premium. The Total Turbotax shows is $213 more than the donations entered.

SteamTrain

Level 15

1) Desktop Premier, there is no desktop Premium.

But perhaps:

2) Did you make any check-off donations on your 2024 State tax return? Those automatically transferred into my charity donations from last year's state tax filing.

____________*Answers are correct to the best of my knowledge when posted, but should not be considered to be legal or official tax advice.*

robertsmeganTT2024Author

Level 2

Yes -- Desktop Premier. No, no check-off 2024 donations. In Turbotax, the amounts listed on the screen (and in the forms) to not add up to the total diaplayed

SteamTrain

Level 15

Then you'll have to go thru the entire chariot donations table and look at (Edit) each one to see what was supposedly claimed by you for each charity....to see where the difference occurs.

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Of course, one other "remote'" possibility....if you made some large donations last year, it's possible that there were some carry-over amounts for some donation(s) that exceeded the % of AGI limit for the type of donation you made.

For those using Desktop software, they can see those carryover charity amounts (IF they occurred) on the Federal Carryover Worksheet. Go to Forms Mode, then scroll down the list of forms, and neat the end of the Federal list of forms is the Carryover Wks. Select that and down in lines 26 & 27 ate two tables where any charity contributions may have carried over from last year.

____________*Answers are correct to the best of my knowledge when posted, but should not be considered to be legal or official tax advice.*