It may be that you didn't have any taxable income before you entered the contributions, so you didn't have any income to be reduced when you entered them. Also, you may have had taxable income but you had credits that reduced your tax to $0.
You can look at your taxable income on line 15 of your form 1040 and your total tax on line 24 to see if one and/or the other is $0.
You can view your form 1040 while working in the online version of TurboTax by following these steps:
While working on your return in the Federal section of TurboTax:
1. Choose the Tax Tools icon on your left menu bar
2. Tools
3. View Tax Summary
4. Choose the Preview my 1040 on your left menu bar
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