I am filing Minnesota state taxes using TurboTax Home and Business for Mac.
On the screen titled "Tell us about other income adjustments" there is a checkbox next to "Had charitable contributions and took standard deduction on federal return." When I click the checkbox it expands to show a and input box where I can type in the total dollar value, but when I type it and then remove focus from that field the number just disappears. This input should populate the "Charitable Contributions Over $500 Smart Worksheet" on Form M1M, and if I try to enter it there directly it also just immediately disappears.
The Charitable Contribution Subtraction page on the Minnesota Department of Revenue webpage says that I qualify to deduct charitable contributions (even if I choose the standard deduction) as long as these two things are true:
- I did not file a Schedule M1SA, Minnesota Itemized Deductions
- I made qualified deductions over $500.
Both of these should be true, as I am not itemizing deductions on federal and Turbotax validates that I am taking the standard deduction for Minnesota as well. However, it seems that Turbotax has created and populated Schedule M1SA, I assume so that it can advise on whether or not I should take the itemized or standard deduction for Minnesota. Turbotax actually populates my charitable contributions (entered on the federal side) into Schedule M1SA, but does not include them on Schedule M1M where I need them to be.
Is this a bug? Is Turbotax not letting me enter the charitable donation value into Schedule M1M because I have a Schedule M1SA, even though I don't plan to file it since I'm claiming the standard deduction? How can I get it to save/accept the input into "Had charitable contributions and took standard deduction on federal return" question in the walkthrough or let me edit/save Schedule M1M directly? I tried clearing my MN tax data and starting over, but that did not resolve the problem.
