To clear this error, return to the Deductions & Credits section of your return. Scroll down to the end and select Done with This Donation.
Continue through the screens so that TurboTax will optimize between the standard deduction and itemizing deductions. There will eventually be a Cares Act Charitable Donation screen. Do not enter anything in this field. Highlight and delete it completely so that TurboTax will not count the entry as an override.
Form 1040, page 1, Line 10a is coming from Schedule 1, Part II, Line 22. This is separate from the total Charitable Contributions.
Form 1040, page 1, Line 10b is the Charitable contributions if you take the standard deduction.
To qualify for the Cares Act above-the-line deduction up to $300 for all taxpayers except married filing separate, who would each have a maximum of $150, for standard deduction filers, the IRS clarifies that the contribution must be:
- a cash contribution;
- made to a qualifying organization;
- made during the calendar year 2020
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