Hi, sorry for the long question above.
My uncle recently passed away. We cleaned out his house and he had a TON of clothes for himself and he still had all of the clothes from his wife that died a year and a half previous.
Needless to say, we should have looked up how to claim our tax credit before just making 2 truckload trips to the Salvation Army and dropping them off.
The Salvation Army attendant gave us a receipt saying we dropped off clothes and shoes that were in good condition - then gave my father a "valuation" list for us to go through and figure up how much everything would be.
As I said 95% of these clothes were in excellent condition and at least 10% were brand new and still had the tags attached... I did not know that we had to make a list of each item or take pictures like a lot of people have stated they had done in the past.
From what I have figured by using the ItsDeductible software - just my uncle's clothing alone - is close to $1900 in worth. I haven't started on my Aunt's clothing yet.
Did we botch this whole thing up? Are we even able to claim anything for charity tax credit since we didn't itemize and outline our contributions since it's totaling so much? I would need to tell my parents to add that this came from my uncle's house so that would be inheritance I guess? I have no idea.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, I wish I had done research before the donation took place, but we live in a very small community and all the people told us was to load it up - take it the salvation army - get the receipt and write how much we thought it was worth based on the valuation list we were given... now that I check to make sure... I think we severely messed up.
Thanks again.
