topic I found my public schools charity code from the chart Turbotax provided which is 8 digits yet i keep getting an error on turbotax saying it needs to be 9 digits in Retirement tax questions

I found my public schools charity code from the chart Turbotax provided which is 8 digits yet i keep getting an error on turbotax saying it needs to be 9 digits

dianna19871989 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 08:49:21 GMT

Phoenix Elementary District code shows listed as 70401000 and nothing more

Re: I found my public schools charity code from the chart Turbotax provided which is 8 digits yet...

KrisD15 — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 04:11:18 GMT

That would be the district code,

You need the EIN.

Could this be it?

86-0218429

"PHOENIX UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT CLASSROOM TEACHERS ASSOCIATION INC is a 501(c)(6) organization, with an IRS ruling year of 1970, and donations may or may not be tax-deductible."

LINK

Re: I found my public schools charity code from the chart Turbotax provided which is 8 digits yet i keep getting an error on turbotax saying it needs to be 9 digits

SteamTrain — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 13:42:39 GMT

This probably has to do with the AZ-specific tax credit for contributions to schools.....and entering the special district code.

Maybe a leading zero?

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@Rainman12 You used to specialize in AZ tax returns. Do you know what's going on here for that AZ credit in the TTX software? Some special field for the District code isn't "taking"?

Re: I found my public schools charity code from the chart Turbotax provided which is 8 digits yet i keep getting an error on turbotax saying it needs to be 9 digits

Rainman12 — Sat, 12 Mar 2022 17:44:09 GMT

AZ DOR link for public school codes

https://azdor.gov/sites/default/files/media/PUBLICATION_ADESchoolListing.pdf

NB: There are both School and District codes.

Re: I found my public schools charity code from the chart Turbotax provided which is 8 digits yet i keep getting an error on turbotax saying it needs to be 9 digits

SteamTrain — Sat, 12 Mar 2022 17:58:05 GMT

@Rainman12

Yeah, I saw that...but @dianna19871989 implied that the tax software wasn't accepting the 8-digit code, and was requiring 9-digits.

I then saw that the left-column numbers, taht would otherwise have 8 digits, had leading zero's where the rt-column numbers didn't. SO I suggested to use a leading zero in their entry, in case the tax software was locked into 9 digits for both.

Still, I wonder if AZ messed up their own PDF number formatting and really meant to have leading zeros in the district numbers too.

I don't have AZ software so can't check the software formatting requirements.

Re: I found my public schools charity code from the chart Turbotax provided which is 8 digits yet i keep getting an error on turbotax saying it needs to be 9 digits

Rainman12 — Sat, 12 Mar 2022 21:09:40 GMT

Possibly a TT issue; I've sent dozens of returns using two other packages and numbers as at link. IMO, your suggestion was a good one. I've been inputting the Name of the district, not the Number.

Re: I found my public schools charity code from the chart Turbotax provided which is 8 digits yet i keep getting an error on turbotax saying it needs to be 9 digits

Rainman12 — Sat, 12 Mar 2022 21:21:07 GMT

Checking for a pattern in the numbering system - Perhaps a Trailing zero might work. Consider the listings for 'Academy of Tucson': same 'District' number, but three different 'School' numbers, where the last numbers in the sequence differ, but the beginning of the string remains the same as District.

Again, I've only been using District Name to get the credit - Not number.