The Charitable Cash Contribution under CARES Act can confuse the software and the itemized deductions / standard deduction. You may want to try these steps to remove the $300 contribution and qualify for itemized deductions.
In TurboTax Online, the screen Charitable Cash Contributions under CARES Act appears as the end of Deductions & Credits. First you have to pass the screen Based on what you told us, the standard deduction is best for you at the end of Deductions & Credits.
But you have to qualify for the standard deduction before the screen appears. So you may want to change the value of one or more itemized deductions to $1 so that you qualify for the standard deduction. Follow these steps:
- At the top of the screen, click on Deductions & Credits.
- Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on Wrap up tax breaks.
- Continue through several screens.
- At the screen Based on what you told us, the standard deduction is best for you, click Continue.
- At the screen Any Charitable Cash Contributions? delete the dollar amount or enter $0.
- Continue through Federal Review to make sure that things look correct.
- Then restore your itemized deductions dollar amounts.
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