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Question

Does anyone else filing charitable donations with spouse causing one spouse to have to pay the next years estimated taxes in instalments?

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
August 21, 2024
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this caused by a flaw in turbo tax not allowing the deductions to be split between spouses

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Were you using TurboTax Online or TurboTax Download?

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Did you split your charitable donations? You can verify which way would be best so that you owe less or get a refund- depending on your tax situation. Please see below:

Then go to the "Find" on top of your return and type in Charitable donation optimizer. Go; it will help you see which one of you should claim or both possibly should claim the donation to make you have a better return.

Thank you for choosing TurboTax.

The steps listed below dont seem to be an option in the Standard package (you used Home and Business). I had to file separately to get the split. I even called your help desk and they "remotely accessed" into my computer and verified that the donations in the standard package could not be split. Nor would the optimizer allow a split

For example - If not split, total refund for both $8000 with donations; but one gets 12000 refund and the other $4000 bill (this bill triggers a CRA instalment for the next year)