As I said earlier, Arizona requires you to enter your charitable deductions on Federal schedule A , and will not allow you to deduct them if they aren't listed. Your suggestion to remove all the Schedule A cash deductions is simply another workaround to try to get Turbotax to work properly, and does not solve the problem.
The problem lies in the Program , not in how we input the deductions!
Again, the federal review alone will pass without error and correctly figure the tax. The state tax review will also complete without error. It is only the final review of both forms together that causes the incorrect figure of $300 for the charitable contribution to be placed in the 1040wks, which then changes the tax calculation.
Whatever has been done to the program regarding this, within the last few days, now does not only NOT flag the error introduced in the final review, but also proceeds to allow the Federal tax to be higher than initially calculated. The max return guarantee is broken. I have filed my final taxes by correcting the error manually after the final review. I will probably not use turbo tax next year due to this.
Fix the program!
