Thanks for the correction, Stream Train. It makes sense that QCD total might be added back on line 5; I didn't know that because I did use QCD this year. But the canceling out of the line 5 addition of QCD number against the QCD as a NC deduction does mean that the QCD total, which is embedded in Federal AGI, is carried over to one's NC situation. Of course, one does have to itemize on NC for this to occur.
In the future I'm unlikely to itemize on the Federal or the NC, except occasionally when I have lots of deductions, likely due to my periodic funding of a donor-advised fund.
