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Deductions & credits
Turbotax charitable donations interview and form seems severely lacking. Yes, there is a choice of "stock" but there are other items, quoting from the IRS form, "Also list publically traded securities and certain other propertyeven if the deduction is more than $5,000." This is also where one would enter donation of a vehicle, but Turbotax is not flexible enough to allow it.
I needed to list mutual funds donated to a donor advised fund. What I did was chose stock in Turbotax and where it asked me for the "Stock symbolor ticker, number of shares" I entered "Mutual Fund VFIAX, 123.451."
Turbotax also does not allow any antry for choice of method to determine the fair market value. I wish I could have entered "Treasury Regulation #20.2031-2" as provided by my donor advised fund. However, I had to choose the non-changable Turbotax default, "Comparative sales."
Turbotax, you could easily fix this if you wanted to.