Where is CA Charitable Donations?

[Sarah37]

I am getting a rejection for my state taxes. I cannot find where CA Charitable Donations is located. Can someone please help me where to find this so I can delete it on my return? Turbo Tax does not seem to know where it is either. HELP!

[Tyates1]

Did you file federal with standard deduction and then take the additional $300 (single) or $600 (joint) cash charitable donation which is allowed this year? If so Turbo Tax does not seem to know how to adjust for this. You will get a100% correct notice when you do your final review but its wrong. You will need to go to "forms" and manually make the adjustment yourself. Go to CA 540 schedule A, part II, side 5 and manually put in either $300 or $600, whichever is appropriate, in column B line 11(gifts by cash or check). This should correct your return and the state should accept it assuming there are no other issues.

Turbo Tax help was useless on this issue. The don't even seem to be aware there is a problem.

[Tyates1]

Go to "view" at the top of the page in Turbo Tax and click on "forms". This allows you to make direct inputs in Turbo Tax.

Scroll to "California Individual" and on down to "Schedule CA", click on this.

On the form, scroll to part II, "gifts to Charity". Enter $300 or $600, whichever is appropriate on line 11 (gifts by cash or check) column B (subtractions). This should change your tax due or refund.

Go back to "step by step" and complete your return. Resubmit to state, hope it will get accepted this time.