State tax filing

@DoninGA    Its critical that this one be passed up the line for fast action (Before E-filing NC does start up). 

It has nothing to do with the transmission problems, but an actual critical calculation error for NC.

I spent late night confirming it, and this morning too testing different situations.

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1) Short story: Transferring in last year's 2020 tax file includes ALL charitable deductions form 2020 into a 2021 NC Charitable Carryover page....all $$ already used last year.  And none of those $$ are carryover amounts.

2) Longer story:  I created a 2020 Fed&NC tax file (Premier: 2020.48.50.115). Single age 55 With $100,000 W-2 & AGI.

Itemized deductions ( Fed 21,300) with 13,500 mixed Charitable donations.  Those same Charitable donations were used in the 2020 NC itemized deductions.  No carryover since the 13500 was far below the 60%,50%,30%,etc AGI limits)

3) Transferring that file to 2021 taxes  (Premier: 2021.47.17.75)  just takes those used charity donations and imports them into the Carryover column of the 2021 Deductions worksheet  (picture Below).  (not sure what happens if there was an actual carryover).

4) If an NC resident has enough 2021 deductions to itemize for 2021, then those improper carryover $$ are added in for an improper large total charitable deduction (second picture below.  Similar 100k AGI with Itemized deductions).

5) One can workaround by entering $0 for those carryover amounts in teh NC interview (both Online & Desktop)  or the form itself in desktop....but cannot just blank-out the values, or the $$ refill with the improper values.  Those who realize the $$ are all wrong may fix them...but 10's of thousands will just let it go assuming TTX knows what it's doing.

6) Other:  If the 2021 NC tax file doesn't have enough new deductions to itemize, the carryover $$ are ignored...so those folks may be safe for the moment.  IF the person used the NC Std Ded in 2020, all their 2020 Charitable donations (if entered in 2020) still transfer to the Carryover column for 2021 taxes.

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Diagnostic files if they can be used:

2020 Fed + NC: 923675

2021 Fed + NC: 923683

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