After following the instructions to remove the charitable deductions from schedule A, and then proceeding, the program did list the $600 deduction I had and allowed it to pass all checks. The AZ state form then has a area to claim the charitable contributions that you did not list on the Federal form, but you have to manually subtract which of those contributions you claim a state tax credit for from the total. Note that The AZ form asks the user to go back, and enter all charitable contributions on the federal schedule A , at the start of that process. So, there is still a disconnect in either the federal or the state process, due to a bug in turbo tax itself.
AZ allows a tax credit of up to $800 for approved charities in AZ, and you must list them in a later step. Once you do that the Federal form will maintain the $600 entry, and both it and the state form will pass the final checks and allow you to file with NO errors reported. I did give Michelle a thumbs up for the information, but there is still an issue that TTAX should correct to make the program work without a work around having to be done. Once the standard deduction is selected after entering all the schedule A items TTAX should default to the $600 allowed, if it was less than the amount on Schedule A.
I think that it is actually more accurate to list all the charitable contributions made on schedule A ( which still keeps me below the Itemizing point on the federal and which TTAX asks you to enter when following it step by step)) and then after resetting the $600 that will change to $300 when the state form is finished and the whole return is checked, just not doing the second check , and filing.
This is still a disappointment and lack of support by Intuit and TTAX.
