Form 1040 Line 12b shows unacceptable value

[brmwiatt]

would help to know what tax year this is for/

[brmwiatt]

Sorry but the link you provides is worthless

[KrisD15]

For TurboTax Desktop and Online:

Please return to the Deductions & Credits section, scroll down to "Charitable Donations" and DELETE any cash entries you made there. 

 Go back through the review. The program will ask you for that number again although it may not be until the END of the FINAL REVIEW.  (After the "Tax Summary for 2021" screen)

 Enter the amount up to 600 Married Filing Joint.

The Tax law allows a Taxpayer to claim Charity Donations on their Schedule A or, if using the Standard Deduction, on their 1040 line 12b as an addition to their Standard Deduction amount. 

This amount can be up to 600 for Married Filing Joint, or 300 for all others. 

[ohappyme]

2021

[ghoofie]

There are those of us who need the charity deduction itemized because some states use it for itemize. 

[DoninGA]

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@ghoofie wrote:

There are those of us who need the charity deduction itemized because some states use it for itemize. 

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Please return to the Deductions & Credits section, scroll down to "Charitable Donations" and DELETE any cash entries you made there.

To include charitable donations for your state return, you can enter the donations as "Items" select "I'll value them, select "Other intangible property" enter the description as cash if it was and the amount as the value.

Go back through the review. The program will ask you for that number again although it may not be until the END of the FINAL REVIEW. (After the "Tax Summary for 2021" screen)

Enter the amount up to 600 Married Filing Joint.

[P2022]

I've updated the desktop software (Deluxe plus State) as of 2/7/22. What a mess!!!

Originally I entered two different lines containing cash donations totaling over $4K. Completed both the Fed and my state (KS) program. Notice when I went to up to the top left corner and selected Forms that the "Errors" stop sign lit up with a red asterisk next to 1040/1040SR Wks. Scrolling down revealed the issue was on line 12b.   Line 12a shows the standard deduction of 27,800. The next line appearing in the center between lines 12a and 12b defaults to my contribution total. Line 12b automatically populates with 300 in red with a yellow highlight. I am filling Married Filling Jointly. The directions on Line 12a declare that if MFJ then enter $600. If I manually change Line 12b from the red colored "300" to "600" it will stick until I run the final Analysis after the FED and State portions.   (It will be okay after just running the FED Review portion alone).  Then it changes back to 300 and the error is logged.   

There is a difference in the tax I pay for both the FED and State based upon the answer to Line 12b is "300" or "600". 

 I can not get around this error manually. 

I've read all of the pertinent posts I can find.

So maybe the error lies in the final "REVIEW" section where "Analysis" if found. That runs a check on both FED and State and causes the error again

Turbotax needs to fix this or explain to me how to get around it Please.

[brmwiatt]

"To include charitable donations for your state return, you can enter the donations as "Items" select "I'll value them, select "Other intangible property" enter the description as cash if it was and the amount as the value."

This sort of implies to change your state return. I'm not seeing how this helps as surely not every state works the same way. It would really by helpful if the form/line # was provided when providing instructions.

As a side note I noticed TT didn't catch for my situation, my refund was some $100 more if I filed as married/joint instead of separate on my IA return.

Further, once I  chose to file married filing joint return, the amount of my itemized charitable contributions  on my IA return made no difference to my Iowa refund - therefore on my Federal return I only need line 12b to be $600.  Obviously only helpful to a  very limited  situation for IA filers.

[P2022]

every time I reply I can't find my reply

[brmwiatt]

Not sure what you situation is is for Iowa but after doing the work-around as outlined, in my Iowa return, I was able to put an higher amount in from the IA 1040 schedule A, line 14. But no matter what amount I put in it did not change my return. Thus it makes it difficult to determine if using the work-around is negatively impacting the Iowa return  or working for the IA return.  It's kind of hard to believe a 2K charitable deduction vs  Zero does not  make any difference in the IA refund.

[patti45231]

tax year 2021

[brmwiatt]

apparently, I found it.  😀

[Anonymous]

The described fix does not work for me.  I have tried several times.  I maybe that my W-2 includes charitable cash donations, but, whatever the issue is it will not allow me to file and says that the $600 on line 12b is too large and will not let me continue

[Remeister]

We removed all of our charitable contributions on our federal return.  For our Colorado State return we manually put in the charitable contribution total on line 9b. & added supporting details with names and dollar amounts of the donations.  No errors and made a difference in our Colorado refund.

[Pvermilion]

I would like to know why the program is asking me to input an amount on line 12b when I am itemizing?