To enter your car
donation when it will used by the agency, follow these steps:
1. Go to Federal, select Deductions
and Credits, then choose Charitable
Donations.
2. Go down the list and select Donations to Charity in 2017.
3. Answer yes that you want to report a charitable donation.
4. Enter the Fire Department in the Charity name.
Choose to Add Items (list includes
cars).
5. On the next
page, choose the right-hand box, "I'll
value them".
6. Enter the date of donation.
7. Select car in the category of items to donate.
8. The
following information will be a series of questions regarding your purchase and
the value of the vehicle. When entering how
you came up with the value of the vehicle, choose no entry. You will also be asked if you have a 1099-C or written acknowledgement from
the Fire Department, your answer will be Yes.
At that point you
can enter information about the car from your records and the written
acknowledgement. You will check box 5a to
report the intervening use by the charity.
