Estimating if one qualifies for medical, and charity, deductions.
My wife and I have always tracked and documented our medical/dental and charity itemized eductions. Based on a discussion with a friend (who also uses TurboTax), he thought our medical/dental expenses would have to be way higher than what ours are, to get a deduction. I'm also thinking our charity deductions may not be deductible.
To possibly save ourselves the effort of documenting these possible itemized deductions, is there a way to know what amount of each of those two categories puts us into an itemized deduction threshold (based on our income, and filing jointly)? If not exact, even a rough idea might help, because we have a pretty good idea (even an exact amount for medical/dental) for one of us, through Quicken reporting) of how much we've spent in both categories, without necessarily getting exact totals.
I've done our taxes the last two years in TurboTax (and saved screen snapshots as I progressed through the screens), and our income is pretty much the same. Maybe there is info at the IRS; I'm not sure. Thanks for any possible help.
