UPDATE TO YESTERDAYS POST WHICH FOLLOWS THIS UPDATE. I did a little more looking on this web site and found a comment that if you selected a specific contribution, that you could go to the "forms" button in the upper left of the screen and specify that the particular contribution should be a 100% deduction. I tried this and it worked perfectly. So I was able to select which contributions that I wanted to be 100% so I could therefore get the maximum contribution to get the greatest refund. Previous post - After I posted this issue I contacted the IRS to see what gives and bottom line they did not their act yet (see IRS pub 256) and their only suggestions were to wait or to file and then later file an amended return. I check and it appears that the pub has been appropriately update but when I open my return in Turbotax it does not change anything so I think I am going to have to start from scratch and re-input everything. In doing this it does appear from earlier posts that I can specify each individual donation as a 100% if I want to as I enter it, but I had wanted to donwload my donations form my Quicken account and in doing that I dont think Turbo tax will let me classify specific ones to be 50% or 100%. Oh well i guess I will load each one individually. I think from reading earlier posts that I will be able to specify how I want each one.
