"To include charitable donations for your state return, you can enter the donations as "Items" select "I'll value them, select "Other intangible property" enter the description as cash if it was and the amount as the value."
This sort of implies to change your state return. I'm not seeing how this helps as surely not every state works the same way. It would really by helpful if the form/line # was provided when providing instructions.
As a side note I noticed TT didn't catch for my situation, my refund was some $100 more if I filed as married/joint instead of separate on my IA return.
Further, once I chose to file married filing joint return, the amount of my itemized charitable contributions on my IA return made no difference to my Iowa refund - therefore on my Federal return I only need line 12b to be $600. Obviously only helpful to a very limited situation for IA filers.
