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I’m using TurboTax Desktop to file my 2025 Federal and Arizona returns. I made a $400 donation to a public school that qualifies for a $400 Public School Tax Credit on my Arizona return. In accordance with Treas. Reg. §1.170A-1(h)(3), I am required to reduce the amount of my charitable contributions deduction on my Federal return by the $400 amount for which I'm going to receive a tax credit on my Arizona return. However, Treas. Reg. §1.164-3(j) provides that the payment for which a charitable contribution deduction is disallowed under Treas. Reg. §1.170A-1(h)(3), instead, may be treated as a payment of state taxes for purposes of the deduction for tax under section 164. Accordingly, on my Federal return, I've treated $400 donation as a $400 payment of Arizona state tax by making a positive adjustment to my total tax payments on Line 18d of the Federal Tax Payments Worksheet. However, that $400 then gets pulled into Line 53 on my Arizona Form 140 and there is no way to back it out on the Arizona Tax Payments Worksheet. Consequently, this results in my Arizona tax refund being overstated by $400, because TurboTax is giving me both the $400 credit on AZ Form 140, Line 51 (pulled from AZ Form 301, Line 7, which is pulled from AZ Form 322) and an additional $400 as AZ income tax withheld on AZ Form 140, Line 53. Does anyone know of a way to correct this, or does it require an update to TurboTax?