A QCD that is a direct trustee-to-trustee transfer by the trustee of your IRA to the trustee if the charity is reported when you enter you 1099-R.
If over age 70 1/2 the interview will ask if this was a RMD and then ask if you had a transfer to a charity. Enter the amount and it will subtract that from the taxable distribution on line 15a on the 1040 form with QCD next to it.
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