What might cause the standard deduction to be the only option with the Premium online Tax? Itemized Deductions are 45,383. Could it be because of Credits?

[SteamTrain]

1)  Medical deductions?

Remember, only the (out of pocket) $$ that exceeded 7.5% of your AGI are included in your itemized deductions.   

2)  Did you make any "item" donations to charities (clothes, shoes appliances etc).  Go back to edit that section to make sure the $$ are still there.   If you deleted any unused charity, after you had already put in some "item" donations, the item donations may have disappeared  (yep, a software bug)

[abrookens0428]

I went ahead and deleted all the medical expenses and took out over 1.5k in charitable contributions to get the itemized items under 40k and it still wouldn’t allow me to claim itemized 

[SteamTrain]

Well...hard to know what the issue is in this Public Forum.

1)  Make sure you've entered all your income first.  Shouldn't matter but might.

2)  If you are married and filing separately (MFS), you do have to file the same as your spouse...either both Std Ded, or both itemized.....maybe you set that wrong.

3) If you made any stock donations to a charity, the Form 8283 isn't ready until 4 Feb.  Maybe that is affecting it "somehow".

4)   Unless some of the itemized deductions you think you have, really aren't.

....(added later)  Like any 2025 4th Qtr state tax paid in January 2026, those weren't actually paid in 2025 so don't get added to Federal 2025 itemized deductions....