Hello Annette
The process you noted in your reply does work, HOWEVER, your step 11 does not prompt you to re-enter the charitable deductions that you deleted, and if you go back and re-add those deductions, WHICH does impact the state tax refund or amount due, the smart check fails again... And it seems to default to 300, which is the wrong number I assume, which is an error on the programs part for seemingly forgetting at this point that I am married filing jointly.
To be clear, it can fail depending on the users input process perhaps, it will fail the smart check before you get to State Taxes, or it can fail the Smart Check AFTER the state taxes, it seems to lose the value at some point and reverts to 300, which means its sort of working but something alters this value.
Now at this point, it does seem that you can input the proper number if your married filing jointly of 600 and then it seems to pass the smart check. HOWEVER. while one can ASSUME that your return is correct at this point, I find it speculative since the program is OBVIOUSLY failing to properly deal with charitable deductions that I enter and whatever the Care Act input and calcuation is trying to do for you..
Get the programmers to fix this problem so that one can have a little more confidence that their taxes are correct in this situation.
