topic What is replacing ItsDeductible in TurboTax, and when will it be available? in Deductions & credits

What is replacing ItsDeductible in TurboTax, and when will it be available?

jkreit70 — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 01:18:49 GMT

In prior years, TurboTax included ItsDeductible to calculate the fair market value (FMV) of donated items for charitable deductions. That feature no longer appears to be built into TurboTax.

TurboTax support articles mention that something will replace ItsDeductible, but I haven’t been able to find clear details.

• What tool or feature is replacing ItsDeductible?

• Will it be integrated directly into TurboTax or be a separate product?

• When is it expected to be available (this tax year or a future one)?

• In the meantime, what does TurboTax recommend users rely on for FMV calculations?

Looking for guidance so deductions are calculated consistently with prior years.

Thanks.

Re: What is replacing ItsDeductible in TurboTax, and when will it be available?

M-MTax — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 01:30:27 GMT

No one here can provide firm answers to your questions.

We only know that the tool in TurboTax is projected to be released in an update to the program sometime later this month or in March.

Re: What is replacing ItsDeductible in TurboTax, and when will it be available?

MikeW9 — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 21:40:40 GMT

They expect you to wait until you have a week left before they tell us they're not replacing it with any functionality. We're being strung along. If they intended on having the functionality, they'd have left the functinoality. You will almost certainly be entering your long list of charitable donations one by one but they'll have some tool to generate a value as you painstakingly enter items one by one, answering about 5 questions for each.

I have zero hope that they'll release something with the functionality we are waiting for. That would be called "itsdeductible" and we know we're not getting that.

Don't wait, ditch them. They don't deserve you. Request a refund. They're not getting any more of my money after 23 years.

Re: What is replacing ItsDeductible in TurboTax, and when will it be available?

M-MTax — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 21:45:17 GMT

@MikeW9 wrote:
Request a refund. They're not getting any more of my money after 23 years.

Who is then? No one else has that functionality either.

Re: What is replacing ItsDeductible in TurboTax, and when will it be available?

MikeW9 — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 21:46:34 GMT

I am and I'm recommending it to anybody that will listen.

You and your misplaced loyalty can do what you please. They deserve to lose us.

Re: What is replacing ItsDeductible in TurboTax, and when will it be available?

MikeW9 — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 21:47:51 GMT

Deductionpro from their primary competitor.

Re: What is replacing ItsDeductible in TurboTax, and when will it be available?

M-MTax — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 22:04:02 GMT

@MikeW9 wrote:
Deductionpro from their primary competitor.

That's NOTHING like ItsDeductible.

Re: What is replacing ItsDeductible in TurboTax, and when will it be available?

M-MTax — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 22:05:28 GMT

@MikeW9 wrote:
You and your misplaced loyalty can do what you please.

I have no loyalty to any company.

I'm merely pointing out facts and, obviously, you have a fixed aversion to them.

Re: What is replacing ItsDeductible in TurboTax, and when will it be available?

MikeW9 — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 22:09:06 GMT

Then I'll use a combination of Deductible Duck and H&R Block.

Intuit lost me. Not sure why anybody would defend their bad decision making. Even if the H&R Block version is inferior, it's better than the RUMOR that intuit may provide something right at the last minute. Don't get your hopes up for what that may end up being. Anything worthwhile would just be Itsdeductible. Just reinstitute that for next to zero effort you geniuses.

Re: What is replacing ItsDeductible in TurboTax, and when will it be available?

M-MTax — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 22:11:05 GMT

@MikeW9 wrote:
Just reinstitute that for next to zero effort you geniuses.

Why? The product consumes resources and produces no revenue.

Re: What is replacing ItsDeductible in TurboTax, and when will it be available?

MikeW9 — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 22:17:32 GMT

That's like saying that E-filing generated them no revenue. If it's why customers buy the software, it generated them revenue. I think they looked at it like a stand-alone product, which it really wasn't. It's a compliment to turbotax. Anybody tracking donations using itsdeductible is a garunteed TT customer for that year.

Many long time users on this message board cite it as the reason they've bought the software for 20+ years.

I'm one.

They'll find it was generating them a lot of revenue. I'll go elsewhhere. I have a lot of tax filing years left. I'll never give them a dime again.

There. Itsdeductible officially generated 23 years of me buying their software. Now it lost that. That was way cheaper than the effort it's going to take to get a bunch of new customers to replace the long time loyal base that will be leaving. They've calculated it and I guess they're good with that loss. I won't be quiet about how dumb the idea was. I will recommend quitting them to anybody else listening. I think Intuit earned that from me.

Re: What is replacing ItsDeductible in TurboTax, and when will it be available?

jkreit70 — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 22:40:39 GMT

I’m honestly very disappointed with Intuit’s decision to discontinue ItsDeductible without a clearly defined, comparable replacement.

For many long-time TurboTax users, ItsDeductible wasn’t a “nice to have.” It was a core part of how charitable deductions were tracked and valued consistently year over year. That consistency matters—not just for convenience, but for accuracy and defensibility.

In the meantime, I’ve had to create my own workaround. I’m now using ChatGPT to load and itemize all charitable donations, apply reasonable FMV estimates based on comparable resale data, and generate TurboTax-ready summaries and PDFs that I then manually enter into TurboTax. It gets me there, but it’s far from ideal—and not something customers paying for TurboTax should need to do.

What’s most frustrating is the lack of clarity. Support articles and forum responses keep saying that “something will replace ItsDeductible,” but there’s no concrete detail on what that actually means. No clear scope, no clear timing—just uncertainty. That makes it hard to plan and undermines confidence in the product.

Like many others here, I’ve purchased TurboTax for years specifically because of ItsDeductible. Removing it without an equivalent replacement meaningfully reduces the value of TurboTax and pushes unnecessary manual effort onto users who are simply trying to file accurately and consistently.

Clear communication and direction would go a long way here.I’m

Re: What is replacing ItsDeductible in TurboTax, and when will it be available?

M-MTax — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 22:41:17 GMT

@MikeW9 wrote:
Many long time users on this message board cite it as the reason they've bought the software for 20+ years.

That would be the number of people who posted on this board which probably amounts to less than 100. Even if you add 100k to that, it's a drop in the bucket for Intuit.

Re: What is replacing ItsDeductible in TurboTax, and when will it be available?

M-MTax — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 22:43:21 GMT

@MikeW9 wrote:
They've calculated it and I guess they're good with that loss.

This move is likely saving them money; they're not losing, they're likely more profitable without the expense of maintaining a program no one pays for.

Re: What is replacing ItsDeductible in TurboTax, and when will it be available?

M-MTax — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 23:03:13 GMT

@jkreit70 wrote:
What’s most frustrating is the lack of clarity. Support articles and forum responses keep saying that “something will replace ItsDeductible,” but there’s no concrete detail on what that actually means.

It is purportedly a valuation tool for donated items, the same as is present in software from H&R Block and TaxAct. So, it's not the same as ItsDeductible but then neither is anything offered by the other tax prep software providers.