Gosh, you don't seem to be listening. The issue is not addressed nor is it fixed. Do you actually use your own software? You keep focusing on the $300 amount, but I don't believe that is the case for everyone's situation. I'm married and filing jointly - entering $300 in line 10b resulted in an error that would not resolve. I read the IRS note and entered $600. Poof, issue fixed. Turbotax is broken for this corner case as it did not detect the case of married + joint return + standard deduction + charitable contributione -> $600. Instead, Turbotax auto-populated $300. I had to know to manually enter $600 and then life was good.
https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/year-end-giving-reminder-special-tax-deduction-helps-most-people-give-u...
Ordinarily, people who choose to take the standard deduction cannot claim a deduction for their charitable contributions. But a temporary law change now permits them to claim a limited deduction on their 2021 federal income tax returns for cash contributions made to qualifying charitable organizations. Nearly nine in 10 taxpayers now take the standard deduction and could potentially qualify.
Under this provision, individual tax filers, including married individuals filing separate returns, can claim a deduction of up to $300 for cash contributions made to qualifying charities during 2021. The maximum deduction is increased to $600 for married individuals filing joint returns.
https://www.aarp.org/money/taxes/info-2021/how-to-deduct-charitable-donations.html
For the 2021 tax year, the charitable deduction is even better, at least for those who file a joint return. For 2020, the charitable limit was $300 per “tax unit” — meaning that those who are married and filing jointly can only get a $300 deduction. For the 2021 tax year, however, those who are married and filing jointly can each take a $300 deduction, for a total of $600.
