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Level 15
Level 15

Deductions & credits

Did you take the entire MRD yourself, and then use some of the money to make a donation to a charity, or did you have the IRA custodian send the donation directly to the charity without the donated money ever being in a non-IRA account of your own? When TurboTax asks if part of the MRD was "transferred to charity," it means that the IRA custodian paid the money directly to the charity. If the MRD went into your own account and you then made a donation to charity, you cannot do what MinhT1 said above.