topic Charitable Contribution Carryover in Deductions & credits

Charitable Contribution Carryover

klh-4 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 08:04:03 GMT

On my joint 2020 and 2019 taxes I took a standard deduction. Can I carryover my charitable contributions to 2021?

Re: Charitable Contribution Carryover

DoninGA — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 14:26:21 GMT

If you took the Standard Deduction on your 2020 tax return, charitable contribution you made in 2020 are not carried over since those were entered as itemized deductions and you did use itemized deductions on the 2020 tax return.

Re: Charitable Contribution Carryover

klh-4 — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 20:16:57 GMT

Just to clarify, I itemized initially, but TurboTax advised to take the standard deduction instead so the standard deduction was used. Also there wasn't a Schedule A created for the 2020 tax return by TurboTax. So is the answer still the same?

Re: Charitable Contribution Carryover

DoninGA — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 20:20:39 GMT

@klh-4 wrote:

Just to clarify, I itemized initially, but TurboTax advised to take the standard deduction instead so the standard deduction was used. Also there wasn't a Schedule A created for the 2020 tax return by TurboTax. So is the answer still the same?

Yes, the answer remains the same.