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To reap tax benefits for making charitable donations, you must generally itemize your deductions rather than taking the standard deduction.
For 2021, if you’re claiming the standard deduction, this amount is up to $600 per tax return for those filing married filing jointly and $300 for other filing statuses.
You can correct your return(s) by logging back into your TurboTax program and following the steps below.
Source: JotikaT2 Employee Tax Expert
Thank you so much for this question and answer! I was going crazy trying to figure out why it wasn't updating! Personally I think this is a poor way to handle the Cares Act charitable contributions - I am guessing most people just update their list of charitable contributions the way we always have and don't realize it doesn't update the 1040.
I agree completely. This is a poor way to handle updating the amount given to charities. It should be all in one place.
But thanks for the explanation and solution!
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