Turbotax has a bug and I'm not amused that it was reported over a year ago and still not fixed. I got the same error as others and found $300 pre-populated in the charitable contributions box. I'm "married filing jointly" + filing standard deduction. After trying all sorts of combinations ($0, $300, blank), I re-read the IRS instructions, it clearly says something like" (or $600 if married filing jointly)". I then entered $600 and it fixed itself. This is the first time I've not itemized in many years, so that was new for me. There certainly were lots of charitable entries populated prior to the prompt to choose standard or itemized deductions. I've seen posts by a couple other people that said "delete all charitable deductions" and Turbotax will fix itself. No, that's a bad answer. The algorithm has a bug - it should detect standard deduction + married filing jointly and do the right thing. Pre-populating $300 in that field is also not correct behavior. Thinking it may be time to re-evaluate using Turbotax after being a repeat customer for many years.
