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Why are meals included on form 1125 A line 4?

Hello,

 

I am confused why form 1125A includes a line item for meals, only in the TurboTax version of the form (see image below). This value for was not auto-filled by the software, I manually entered an amount for meal expenses. This entered value was divided by 2 and added to line 5 calculations. This affects COGS obviously. This does not seem correct and is possibly "double dipping" as the meal expenses (50% deductible) were already included in the Other Deductions section. Does anyone know why this line item is here and how it is intended to be used?

 

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