@windmend
Unfortunately, digging into your tax file cannot be done in a Public Forum. (And I, myself, am pretty clueless about business expenses)
For the Charity stuff
.......Since you started over and it's still there, all that I can think of is an automatic carry-over from last year.
Did you make some huge charity contributions last year? Perhaps more than what was allowed to be claimed last year, and thus a carryover to this year?
____________*Answers are correct to the best of my knowledge when posted, but should not be considered to be legal or official tax advice.*
