@DawnC
Thank you! Your explanation makes perfect sense from a tax perspective. I completely agree with you.
I am concerned about the behavior of the Turbo Tax user interface. I should not get an error when I follow the step by step instructions. I expect Turbo Tax to make the correct decision when it determines that I need to take the standard deduction, as it did last year, and to put in the correct values. It almost succeeds in doing that. The code puts $300 in Form 1040 Line 12B during the QC analysis, when it should put $600. That indicates a software problem that should be easy for Intuit to fix.
