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Roger said, "By having a greater amount of itemized deductions in column c for 1/1 through 8/31 vs column d for 1/1 through 12/31 would imply that you had a negative amount of itemized deductions from 9/1 through 12/31..." No it doesn't. It means that my income went up so much in the last period that I wasn't able to itemize as much as I thought I would be able to.

Roger said, "You just simply cannot have more itemized deductions for 8 months of the year than you can for all year." If that's true, then TT should have flagged Line 6 columns a and b as well. My annualized itemized deductions are higher in those columns than in column d, yet there's no error -- because this is a VALID scenario.

(I did correct a few things related to Line 1. Here's an updated screen shot.)  

Still hoping you will explain why your instructions contradict the IRS instructions.    Thank you