2024 Turbotax Limiting Hawaii Gifts to Charity at 60% Hawaii AGI But Other Tax Prep Software Limits Use 60% of Federal AGI

CTinHI — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 03:22:30 GMT

Hawaii N11 Instructions say:

Line 21d

Gifts to Charity

Hawaii adopted the federal provisions that increases the

adjusted gross income limitation on cash contributions

from 50% to 60%, eﬀective for contributions made in tax

years 2018 through 2025.

Complete Worksheet A-4 on page 32 to figure your

deduction for charitable contributions.

It is not clear in my mind if the above AGI mentioned is Federal or Hawaii

or that both Federal and State of Hawaii have 60% of respective AGI.

Using Turbotax software downloaded and updated on Macbook.
Have made high charity donations and satisfied with Federal Return
The Hawaii return limited my Gifts to Charity to 60% of Hawaii AGI.

Recently just for comparison I tried Taxslayer and Taxfreeusa.
With these tax programs, on Hawaii return they limited Gifts to Charity to 60% of Federal AGI

and thus resulted in higherGifts to Charity allowed and thus itemized deductions higer and Hawaii tax lower.

In my case Hawaii was about $2300 less than what Turbotax calulated.

Is Turbotax correct for Hawaii in using 60% of Hawaii AGI????

The competition software uses for Hawaii 60% of Federal AGI

and for what it worth in the above case, CHATGPT indicates to use

in Hawaii Gift to Charity the same as Federal which limited to 60%

of Federal AGI

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2024 Turbotax Limiting Hawaii Gifts to Charity at 60% Hawaii AGI But Other Tax Prep Software Limits Use 60% of Federal AGI