To get past this error, try deleting what is in the Charitable Cash Contributions under Cares Act page. TurboTax can carry your original donation amount to this line for you.
To do this in TurboTax, assuming you entered cash donations in TurboTax already separate from this entry, follow these steps:
- From the left menu, select Federal.
- Go to the second tab from the left, Deductions & Credit.
- Scroll down to Donations to Charity in 2020 and select Edit/Add to review what is listed and confirm it is correct.
- Select Done with Charitable Donations.
- Answer any additional questions and select Wrap up tax breaks and continue through the prompts.
- When you see Charitable Cash Contributions under Cares Act, highlight the contents of the cell before deleting it so that it is truly blank and delete the entry.
- Select Continue.
- Repeat Wrap up tax breaks to get the optimizer to verify you should take the standard deduction.
- When you see the Charitable Cash Contributions under Cares Act page, you should see your full donation amount posted here already. This is fine.
To see what will be reported,
- Go to the left menu and select Tax Tools.
- Select Tools and View Tax Summary.
- Go back to the left menu and select Preview my 1040.
- Scroll down to Line 10b. You should see 300.
- To return to your program, select Back from the left menu.
- Continue with your Review.
