TurboTax does have tools to help you forecast. You don't say whether you are using TurboTax Online or CD/Download. You can estimate your tax liability in both products. Here's what to do: Type w-4 in Search (magnifying glass) in the top right cornerSelect Jump to w-4On "Adjust How Much Tax You Pay" say NOOn "Review Your Estimates?" say Review NowOn "Enter 2023 Itemized Deductions" add your estimates CD/Download also has a What-If fundction. Type Forms in the top right cornerTap Open Form at the top of the left columnType what-if in Search and select the What-if Worksheet, then tap Open FormAt the bottom you will see Itemized Deduction Summary where you can enter up to three different scenariosTap Step-by-Step in the top right where Forms used to be when you are done to return to the interview mode@camatt

Please follow these steps to change to Itemized Deduction: Open your return Click on “Deduction and Credits” tab on top Scroll down and click "Done with deductions" Continue until you get to the "Standard Deduction is right for you" page Check the box next to "Change my deduction" Standard deductions for 2020 Single - $12,400 add $1,650 if age 65 or older Married Filing Separately - $12,400 add $1,300 if age 65 or older Married Filing Jointly - $24,800 add $1,300 for each spouse age 65 or older Head of Household - $18,650 add $1,650 if age 65 or older Possible Itemized Deductions are: Medical and dental costs above and beyond 7.5% of your AGI State, local, real estate, and personal property taxes ($10,000 limit) Home mortgage interest Charitable donations and gifts

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how do I override the standard deduction in turbotax

Forum|Forum|5 years ago
March 15, 2021
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Best answer by ErnieS0

TurboTax does have tools to help you forecast. You don't say whether you are using TurboTax Online or CD/Download.

You can estimate your tax liability in both products.

Here's what to do:

Type w-4 in Search (magnifying glass) in the top right corner
Select Jump to w-4
On "Adjust How Much Tax You Pay" say NO
On "Review Your Estimates?" say Review Now
On "Enter 2023 Itemized Deductions" add your estimates

CD/Download also has a What-If fundction.

Type Forms in the top right corner
Tap Open Form at the top of the left column
Type what-if in Search and select the What-if Worksheet, then tap Open Form
At the bottom you will see Itemized Deduction Summary where you can enter up to three different scenarios
Tap Step-by-Step in the top right where Forms used to be when you are done to return to the interview mode

@camatt

DanaB27

Please follow these steps to change to Itemized Deduction:

Open your return
Click on “Deduction and Credits” tab on top
Scroll down and click "Done with deductions"
Continue until you get to the "Standard Deduction is right for you" page
Check the box next to "Change my deduction"

Standard deductions for 2020

Single - $12,400 add $1,650 if age 65 or older
Married Filing Separately - $12,400 add $1,300 if age 65 or older
Married Filing Jointly - $24,800 add $1,300 for each spouse age 65 or older
Head of Household - $18,650 add $1,650 if age 65 or older

Possible Itemized Deductions are:

Medical and dental costs above and beyond 7.5% of your AGI
State, local, real estate, and personal property taxes ($10,000 limit)
Home mortgage interest
Charitable donations and gifts

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DHA1

If I itemize my deductions my Maryland tax of $837 is reduced to zero with no increase in my federal tax. TurboTax calls this an override and will not let me file electronically.

NCPERSON1

Then you must paper file. Be aware that the federal return will take 6-9 months to process due to the IRS backlogs.

Maryland requires you to be consistent. Both federal and state need to be standard deductions or both need to be itemized.

So you have determined that itemizing on both returns yields a better outcome than taking the standard deduction on both?

if you overrode the standard deduction on the federal return so that MD and federal are both consistent, and Turbo Tax states that violates their 'override' rules, then sounds like a paper file is in order.

VolvoGirl

Employee

Can you explain why you want to override the Standard Deduction? You mean switch to Itemized Deductions? Are your Itemized Deductions more? It should automatically take your Itemized Deductions if they are more.

Or are you filing Married filing Separate and want to take a lower amount?

Is it telling you the Standard Deduction is more than your Itemized Deductions? The questions I've seen turn out that the Standard Deduction + the extra 300 for charity is more than your Itemized Deductions . Check 1040 line 10b.

And Don't confuse itemized deductions on schedule A with your business expenses/deductions on schedule C. They are separate.

camatt

I would like to override the standard deduction so that I can input the 2023 amount when I use a copy of my 2022 file to estimate my 2023 taxes. I can override the Schedule A amount and force the use of the itemized deduction but that affects my state (CA) return that needs to use the true itemized amount since its standard deduction is much lower than federal. It would be nice if Turbotax included a detailed forecasting tool for next years taxes.

ErnieS0Answer

TurboTax does have tools to help you forecast. You don't say whether you are using TurboTax Online or CD/Download.

You can estimate your tax liability in both products.

Here's what to do:

Type w-4 in Search (magnifying glass) in the top right corner
Select Jump to w-4
On "Adjust How Much Tax You Pay" say NO
On "Review Your Estimates?" say Review Now
On "Enter 2023 Itemized Deductions" add your estimates

CD/Download also has a What-If fundction.

Type Forms in the top right corner
Tap Open Form at the top of the left column
Type what-if in Search and select the What-if Worksheet, then tap Open Form
At the bottom you will see Itemized Deduction Summary where you can enter up to three different scenarios
Tap Step-by-Step in the top right where Forms used to be when you are done to return to the interview mode

@camatt

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TeresaM21093

Does anyone know this simple answer. I don't have hours to plead through the system and the phone tree and the sale pressure for one simple answer.

Turbo Tax hides everything. In Maryland you toggle back and forth between ID vs SD and in the aggregate sometimes it is more beneficial to itemize with less which changes Maryland.

All Turbo Tax instructions say things that are not there. There is no Screen 25. There is no choice at the bottom of deductions. The Help screens and topic lists are like phone bots programmed for basic only., This is an IMPORTANT tax saving feature for some states that should be available.

Please . . . does anyone know.

ee-ea

Employee

@TeresaM21093

https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/tax-credits-deductions/change-standard-deduction-itemized-vice-versa/L7evWtHhv_US_en_US?uid=leaqi4vq

DaveF1006

If you wish to choose to itemize in Maryland, you must itemize your federal taxes. Although you may receive a better return in your Maryland return, your federal return may not be as favorable. You can try both deductions to see what your overall tax return looks like after comparing your federal and state return.

To change from standard to itemized, go to federal>deductions and credits. Scroll through the screens until you reach the end of the section where it says the Standard Deduction is right for You. Here you can change from Standard to Itemized.

Try both the standard and itemized to examine the overall effect in your return and see which deduction is beneficial to you after weighing the changes between your federal and state return. Here is what the screen should look like.

@TeresaM21093