Each year it becomes more onerous to donate to charity. I have my donation receipts but it is very time consuming to enter 6 visits to one thrift shop and 4 to another, and 8 in kind donations to the local SPCA. Used to be you could type "various" per charity. Why is turbo tax making it harder? I don't see it in the IRS regs. I use Turbo Tax to save time but increasingly it's issues mean I spend hours figuring things out, like yesterday, 3 hours on one issue alone.
Because the IRS Instructions say so.
If your contributions are over $500, Form 8283 is required, and the Instructions state: Enter the date you contributed the property. If you made contributions on various dates, enter each contribution and its date on a separate row.
https://www.irs.gov/instructions/i8283#idm[phone number removed]192
But they are not over $500 per location. Cumulatively probably. Just another harassment of modest people making modest donations. At least they eliminated the address requirement - because the donations were under $500. TT needs to get it's act together. But thank you kindly for your answer and time.
The requirement isn't $500 per location, it is $500 or more TOTAL that requires the form.
You may only enter donation information for an organization as per each separate donation or date, follow these steps:
You must maintain documentation/receipts detailing each donation. You can continue to add other dates by choosing Add Another Donation on the summary screen.