ajs
Level 3

Deductions & credits

Sorry to be slow replying. State is CO; regardless of pandemic special deduction for federal, CO has long allowed donations in excess of $500 to be state deductible even if you don't itemize at the federal level.

 

However, my experience as a tax volunteer with TaxWise, and also user of TurboTax, is that you don't itemize separately for the state...  You enter the details once at the federal level, and it propagates to the state if/as needed. In our case, with the federal-level line 12b workaround to get $600 (pandemic special) federal deduction, then the balance above $500 also showed up on CO form 104CR (credits) just fine, without entering anything more at the state level.